Stop Clearing the Decks

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"There's always something else that if I could do it, my life would be better," he says. "I've found myself sometimes the end of a long day just unable to relax because I can't figure out what is the most optimal use of my time" He has been struck by how many people consider themselves to have like backlogs of video games they want to play in exactly same way as himself.

All of us have too much to do and too little time to do it in. Yet the more we try to increase our productivity, the less happy and productive we seem to be. Why, and what’s the solution? This week Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, joins Adam to discuss how to break the cycle of productivity shame with his radical new approach to looking at time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.