You’ve Never Heard of Time Anxiety But You Definitely Have It

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Chris Guillebeau shares how time anxiety affects nearly everyone—and why naming it might be the first step to freedom. Chris is a New York Times bestselling author known for books like The $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity, and the founder of several beloved communities and events, including the World Domination Summit and Neurodiversion.

We dive into his latest book Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live, exploring why productivity often leaves us feeling emptier, not more fulfilled. Chris shares how his own stress around time led him to uncover this nearly universal tension—and why the answer isn’t just doing less, but living more intentionally. If you’ve ever felt like there’s never enough time (and who hasn’t?), this conversation is for you.

Some highlights we explore:

“I've never heard of that, but I have that.” — Chris on why time anxiety hit a nerve with almost everyone he talked to.
A man who flies to nowhere every week – and what it teaches us about practicing joy.
The illusion of control – why managing time is often just magical thinking.
The eighth day of the week – a practical tool for designing the life you actually want.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	In 15 years of writing books, I haven't found as universal a concept or at least something where
0:05.5	people would ask me like, oh, what are you doing or working on?
0:07.8	And say, oh, this new thing called time anxiety, then exploring.
0:11.0	And almost everybody was like, oh, I've never heard of that, but I have that.
0:14.1	Like, my friends and I, we talk about it all the time, but we didn't have a name for it or a phrase.
0:19.1	Or like, this is the defining problem of my life.
0:21.3	You know, multiple people would say, this episode is brought to you by my latest book,
0:29.4	Never Play It Safe. Right now, if you do not have a copy of my latest book, I want you to listen
0:35.2	to what Gary Vaynerchuk said about my latest book.
0:39.1	Building a life you love doesn't happen on accident. It's a process. Few people know this process
0:44.6	like Chase Jarvis does and never play it safe is the roadmap. Or what Sophia Amaruso said.
0:51.7	This book is a powerful compass for embracing risk and creativity
0:55.7	in all the aspects of your life. Chase shows us how to step out of our comfort zones and become who
1:01.9	we weren't meant to be. Here's a cool fact. All of the best stuff in life is on the other side
1:08.8	of your comfort zone. And never play it safe is a blueprint.
1:13.0	That's how I designed it.
1:13.8	It's a blueprint to get you there reliably over and over again.
1:18.3	It's not an accident that this was a national bestseller on, I think, four bestselling
1:22.6	book lists.
1:23.8	That's because it is a roadmap.
1:26.4	It's a blueprint, right?
1:27.7	It's going to reshape how you think about attention, time, intuition, constraints,
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