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Oliver Burkeman (Replay): Productivity Is A Trap

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Let Go of the to-Do List

I've really let go of this sort of to-do list needs to be done today kind of mentality and I just think that's a really interesting link that you've made there. We have these minds that are capable of coming up with a thousand things we'd like to do or feeling a thousand obligations for things we'd want to do but we are very very finite. There's no reason to believe that the number of things you feel you need to do is gonna fit inside the time and energy that you have in order to do them. You know if you get really good answering email it generates more email and so it's a never-ending quest. To me the huge relief comes from

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