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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep322 - Podcast That Has Impacted My Life - #1 Managing Time

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Tim talks to Oliver Burkeman about his excellent book, 4000 Weeks. 

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Now, for Aikil did a few podcasts that I've had an impact on my life and I thought it would be a good

0:55.2

idea to revisit them. Some people might have missed them. We also have a load more new listeners

1:00.5

who might not have worked their way through the back catalogue. So to start with, this is a podcast

1:08.1

I did, I recorded with Oliver Berkman.

1:11.2

He wrote a book on time which was called 4,000 Weeks, which I recommend.

1:16.1

It's roughly the amount of time that you're alive.

1:19.5

Now they say every man has two lives.

1:21.4

The second one starts when he realizes he only has one.

1:25.1

This is profound for me, as I was always pointlessly juggling time and not really living. Oliver has helped me get a better understanding of how time works. For example, it explains it's impossible not to miss out. And what do we call it? We call it FOMO, fear of missing out. It is impossible as we have so many options open to us now. So you can just

1:46.4

relax and not worry about it. You know you're missing out. Everybody is missing out. Once you

1:53.3

realize you're missing out and you can't do anything about it, because I could be in multiple

1:57.2

countries now instead of recording this, we're able to get planes. We can fly

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