The Sneaky Ways You Waste Your Life: Optimize Your Time, Do Less, & Have More Fun
The Liz Moody Podcast
Liz Moody
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You wrote this book that basically changed millions of people's lives by awakening them to the fact that we only have 4,000 weeks to live. |
| 0:06.7 | Since realizing that time is finite, what's one concrete change that you've made in the way that you live your day-to-day life? |
| 0:13.8 | I think it's much more important to develop that muscle that allows you to keep coming back to any kind of habit or practice. |
| 0:20.0 | Rather than to do this obsessive, |
| 0:21.9 | got to keep the streak going. It's a much more significant challenge to be able to say, like, |
| 0:27.5 | I'm going to do it today, even though I didn't do it yesterday. I thought this was such an interesting |
| 0:31.1 | part of the book because it spoke to me the idea that we're putting too much pressure on ourselves. |
| 0:35.8 | With this whole construct of what you think you need to do to be a better person, and then it's like, these are my marching orders day after day after day, and I gotta do them. Kind of the wrong way around, right? These should be supports to help you live more fully. My name's Oliver Berkman. I'm an author and a journalist. I wrote a book called 4,000 weeks time management for mortals. Thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited to get to |
| 1:00.0 | chat with you again, this time in person. It's great. I'm glad to be here. So you wrote this book that |
| 1:04.8 | basically changed millions of people's lives by awakening them to the fact that we only have |
| 1:09.3 | 4,000 weeks to live. That was four |
| 1:11.6 | years ago now, right? I'm curious, you've done all these interviews, you've talked to all these people |
| 1:16.1 | about it. How has your thinking around that concept evolved and shifted and changed over time? |
| 1:22.5 | The most amazing thing that I find all the time is just the way in which you have to sort of, maybe not keep |
| 1:29.4 | relearning the lessons, but you learn them on a deeper level and a deeper level and a deeper |
| 1:33.2 | level. So what I'm trying to say here is I don't think I'm just as unfamiliar with this |
| 1:38.4 | idea of finitude as before I wrote the book. I think it has changed me. But there's always like another level |
| 1:45.0 | that you have to go down in terms of seeing like, oh, this is what it means to have limited time. |
| 1:50.2 | And this is what it means to have limited control over that time. It's fascinating to me. |
| 1:56.0 | The journey does not end. What are some of the levels you've been going to recently? |
| 2:02.3 | Well, first of all, I began writing that book before becoming a parent. Did that impact your time? We'll teach you |
| 2:08.6 | certain things about the limitations of time. I had this kind of intellectual idea about how it would be |
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