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The Megyn Kelly Show

Taking Risks, Time Management, and Leading a Productive Life, with Oliver Burkeman | Ep. 285

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

It's Wellness Week at the Megyn Kelly Show. Megyn Kelly is joined by Oliver Burkeman, author of "Four Thousand Weeks," to talk about how to live in the moment, productivity and how to be more efficient with your time, whether procrastination is good or bad, keeping your options open versus settling for less when it comes to relationships, the finite nature of life, the importance of saying “no,” setting priorities, learning to tolerate minor anxiety and discomfort, managing patience, the “Cosmic Insignificance Theory,” being bold and taking risks, the myth of leading the 'perfect’ life, the truth about finding happiness, how to thrive in uncertainty, filling your life with novel experiences, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show, three words, four thousand

0:19.3

weeks.

0:21.1

If you are lucky, that's your average lifespan.

0:26.1

And we put it into those terms, life feels pretty short, pretty time limited.

0:31.0

So how are you spending those precious weeks?

0:34.8

Are you using your time wisely?

0:39.0

Journalist and author of four thousand weeks, time management for mortals, Oliver Berkman

0:45.4

joins us today to advise on how to make the most of our finite time on this planet seems

0:53.4

like a good use of our time right now.

0:55.7

Welcome Oliver, good to have you.

0:57.2

Thanks so much for inviting me.

0:58.6

All right, so I have to tell you in reading your book, I laughed because I thought to my,

1:03.4

my first thought was this is a book for my assistant Abby.

1:07.3

This is not a book for me because she and I are polar opposites when it comes to time

1:13.2

management, planning ahead, getting to the airport, you know, all the things that you talk

1:17.6

about in your book, the way your family was, you know, three hours in advance of the airport

1:20.9

and one hour in advance of the train station and all that.

1:23.9

I never do any of that, never, and it drives my poor assistant nuts.

1:29.1

But even if I were doing my own travel, planning it myself and so on, I just not built that

1:33.0

way.

1:34.0

So I feel like this is an interview in part for her and that next to me going, yes.

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