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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Manage Your Precious Time

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Joey is a young creative living in Australia who can't decide which hat to wear. Should it be songwriting, skateboarding, acting, or should he focus more on his day job as a retail clerk? Fitting everything in during the week seems impossible and he feels guilty when he can't cross everything off his checklist. On this episode of How To!, co-host Amanda Ripley brings in journalist Oliver Burkeman, the author of 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. He explains how he too once wanted to do it all, but eventually realized that it's just not feasible. As Joey learns, letting go of some things and focusing on what really matters can actually lead to the 'joy of missing out.'


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0:00.0

We're a Callin' Chip from The Fellas, and this episode is brought to you by the new movie Strays!

0:07.9

Strays is the hilarious dog comedy that you've been waiting for. The story follows Reggie

0:12.5

and foul mouth book, who along with their pack of strays embark on an epic adventure of revenge,

0:18.2

doggy style. And of course, it gets even better because it's voiced by Will Ferrell and Jamie Fultz.

0:23.8

So gather your mates! Oh, I will, my friend, but

0:27.4

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0:33.6

on emissions and cash in the future. You could cut your carbon footprint by about 12 per cent a year.

0:39.6

That's similar to a return flight from London to Perth. Plus, we'll arrange your £5,000 boiler

0:45.0

upgrade grant over 22 years installation experience. EDF, help in Britain achieve net zero.

0:52.2

Based on average household with an aerated gas boiler or an S-reports BA carbon calculator

0:56.3

to an energy saving trust data grant subject to eligibility, details at edfenergy.com.

1:02.1

So I work in retail. I've had this job for about four years as just like a, we call it a checkout

1:09.8

chick, uh, in a grocery store. A checkout chick, is that what you said? Yeah, that's the, uh,

1:17.3

colloquialism here. Oliver, is this a Britishism?

1:21.4

I think this is one of the many uniquely, uh, Australian ways.

1:25.7

Sounds like it, yeah. Talking about the world, yeah.

1:31.9

Welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. It's safe to say most of us struggle to find time for

1:39.0

everything we want and need to do, right? Whether you're a checkout clerk, a skater, a teacher,

1:44.4

a parent, it's the same problem. This week's listener has big dreams and not enough hours in the day.

1:51.8

My name is Joey. I'm 25 years old. I'm an aspiring creative. Uh, I live in Australia. I,

1:59.2

I aspire to be, uh, rider, skater, musician, performer. It's an impressive list. And as you can

2:08.4

probably guess, Joey is having some difficulty making time for all of these interests.

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