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Good Life Project

How to Use Your Time Well | Oliver Burkeman

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, How To, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of feeling like you're constantly behind, struggling to get on top of everything? In this thought-provoking conversation, Oliver Burkeman, author of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, offers a radically different perspective. Discover how accepting your human limitations can paradoxically lead to more presence, ease, and meaning in your daily life.


Burkeman shares insights on making powerful micro-decisions, developing a "taste for problems," reframing interruptions as opportunities, and showing up fully for the richness of each moment - without waiting for some future "sorted" state. Prepare to rethink productivity and uncover the liberation in truly inhabiting your finitude.


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0:00.0

You can be incredibly ambitious if that's what you want for your life within the frame of acknowledging the reality of limitation.

0:07.5

It's when you spend all your energy and time and focus trying to fight your way out of those limitations, I that you don't get to focus on the things that matter the most.

0:17.0

So I first discovered Oliver Bergman's work through his book 4,000 weeks, which was this real wake-up call for me.

0:25.6

The idea that the average person has something like 4,000 weeks to live, it helped me look at my

0:30.5

time on the planet just differently, and refocused me on how to use it well.

0:34.8

So I was so excited.

0:36.2

When I saw that he had a new book out called Meditations for Mortals, four weeks to embrace

0:40.5

your limitations, and make time for what counts.

0:44.0

It's a series of short provocative ideas and essays and thought prompts

0:47.8

designed to really give you new ways to look at all the different aspects of your life.

0:52.0

And it's a powerful reframing of how we approach

0:54.6

the often relentless demands and expectations of daily life. So imagine you could wake up tomorrow with a completely new

1:00.5

perspective, one that didn't see your human limitations as obstacles to overcome,

1:05.2

but as the very portals to a life of deeper presence and meaning and fulfillment.

1:10.7

What if embracing your finite nature as a mortal human was actually the key to living and

1:15.8

extraordinary existence right here, right now?

1:19.6

In this thought-provoking conversation, we explore Oliver's perspective on confronting fears through action rather than avoidance

1:26.0

developing an almost contrarian taste for problems reframing so-called interruptions as simply life

1:32.3

happening around you and so many other rich ideas.

1:35.9

We explore the surprising liberation in realizing you'll never have it all perfectly figured out

1:40.9

and the powerful invitation to fully show up for your delightfully

1:44.4

imperfect yet extraordinary existence.

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