How to Accept Limitations and Make Time for What Counts with Oliver Burkeman
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Oliver Burkeman, discusses how to accept limitations and make time for what counts. He offers a compelling exploration of the challenges inherent in daily living. With a focus on understanding imperfectionism and life’s constraints, his work provides practical strategies and thought-provoking insights for finding greater balance and meaning in life.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Embrace imperfectionism to unlock personal growth potential
- Discover techniques to infuse everyday life with meaning and purpose
- Overcome the challenge of finite time to live a fulfilling life
- Shift from perfectionism to take meaningful action in life
- Master strategies to manage information overload and find balance
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| 0:00.0 | The reason that we struggle in life more than we need to, or so I claim in this book and elsewhere, |
| 0:06.0 | is that we're trying to sort of transcend our limitations. We're trying to get out of the condition of being human, |
| 0:12.1 | instead of entering more fully into and almost kind of harnessing in a sense the condition of being fully humans. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time great thinkers have |
| 0:29.2 | recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:36.4 | ring true. |
| 0:37.8 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:42.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see |
| 0:47.0 | what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and |
| 0:51.3 | dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions |
| 0:55.7 | matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:01.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right |
| 1:04.8 | direction, how they feed their good wolf. Hey everybody the time has finally come. |
| 1:24.6 | This week, starting October 7th through October 11th, that's Monday through Friday, everybody. |
| 1:30.8 | We are revealing the iconic 400 yes Bowen Yang and I famously missed |
| 1:35.8 | our 400th episode here on Los Colchoristas but we are ready to reveal the iconic |
| 1:40.8 | 400 who is on the list? |
| 1:43.8 | Does it matter? |
| 1:45.4 | No. |
| 1:45.9 | Will it be fun? |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.6 | There might even be a surprise or two in there, so listen carefully. |
| 1:52.4 | Listen to Lost Culturist us on Will Farrell's Big Money Players Network |
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