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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | On being is brought to you by the John Templeton Foundation, |
0:03.6 | harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest and most |
0:07.5 | perplexing questions facing humankind. |
0:10.5 | Learn about the latest discoveries in the study of hope and optimism, |
0:14.3 | intellectual humility, and free will at Templeton.org. |
0:19.3 | What is time? |
0:21.3 | That's a question for philosophers and physicists, |
0:24.5 | and yet it is also an element by which each and every one of us |
0:28.3 | experiences and orders our days and our lives. |
0:32.3 | At this time of year, many of us are making plans and resolutions, |
0:36.8 | treating time as we've been taught, as part taskmaster, part resource, |
0:42.3 | something we could fit everything we want into if only we had the discipline. |
0:47.8 | In his longtime column for the Guardian and Books with subtitles like |
0:52.3 | Happiness for People who can't stand positive thinking, |
0:55.3 | my guest Oliver Birkman has long interrogated the possibilities for |
0:59.8 | absurdity in self-help while also honoring the real and deep human longings it meets. |
1:06.3 | And he himself became a time management and productivity geek. |
1:10.8 | Until one day sitting on a bench in Brooklyn, he grasped that no one |
1:15.3 | achieves perfect work-life balance, that in the end, even the most privileged of us, |
1:20.8 | rarely get around to doing the most important things. |
1:25.3 | Where he went next is the conversation I have with him this hour, |
1:28.8 | deep into a philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake |
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