How is Your Time Management? Breaking Down the Facade of Productivity | Oliver Burkeman

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Oliver Burkeman, a British author and journalist who I’ve really enjoyed his writings on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and thoughts on building a meaningful life in an age of distraction.

Oliver is the winner of the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award, and for many years wrote a hit weekly column for The Guardian called This Column Will Change Your Life.

In this conversation, we dive into Oliver’s newest book, Four Thousand Weeks - where he uses the average number of weeks that humans live, 4k – as a reference point to help us examine how we are living…especially in a world of impossible demands, infinite choice, and countless “productivity techniques” that mainly just leave us feeling busier - and less fulfilled.

Oliver’s perspective and insights were a breath of fresh air, and I hope you’ll leave this conversation inspired to do the work to get clear on your values and prioritize your time based on the things that really matter to you – so that, ultimately, you too can make the most of your remaining weeks.

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0:00.0	We put a huge amount of effort into a kind of emotional avoidance, right? We think what we want to do,
0:04.7	we may tell ourselves that what we want to do is live accomplished lives and do meaningful things
0:09.6	and help people, but a lot of the time what we want to do is kind of not feel the anxiety and stress
0:15.8	that comes from acknowledging our limits and our finite nature.
0:31.3	All right, welcome back. Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Jervé,
0:37.3	and by trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist. And the whole idea behind
0:42.1	this podcast behind these conversations is to learn is to pull back the curtain from some of the
0:47.6	most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet to better understand how they have committed
0:53.5	to mastering both their craft and their minds. And the whole effort underneath of it is to become
0:59.2	their very best so that they can help others become their very best. Finding Mastery is brought to
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