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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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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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