Do you worry that you might be wasting your life? That you’re doing things that don’t feel important? Are you constantly anxious about your to-do list?

Is your mind blown that it’s 2024 already?!? 🤯

This week, I’ve enlisted the help of my friend Oliver Burkeman, author of the bestseller *Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals*, to help us get a handle on using time wisely.

In this episode, we’re going to look at how our perception of time shapes our self-image, how it’s often advantageous to choose to be bad at something, why people-pleasing doesn’t actually please people, and a whole lot more.

Oliver Burkeman is a renowned journalist and author, known for his unique ability to seamlessly blend philosophy and psychology to bring a fresh and counterintuitive take to classic self-help subjects.

Oliver’s newsletter:

https://www.oliverburkeman.com/the-im...

Four Thousand Weeks:

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-...

The Antidote:
https://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Happi...

0:00 | Introduction
3:22 | Our relationship with time
5:49 | A better way of looking at time
7:32 | “Strategic underachievement”
11:16 | How to stop people-pleasing
14:58 | Being a net positive at social events
18:45 | “Don’t try to change the world”
21:01 | Our toxic relationship with time and the art of “being present”
30:41 | “Effortless action”
32:53 | Buddhist influences on Oliver’s work
37:51 | Our primary misconception about time management
39:01 | Oliver’s final word of wisdom

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