How to Accept Your Finitude and Your Radical Lack of Immortality

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Sally Kohn: What do you suggest as some approaches that, you know, accept your finitude and lack of immortality to build a life where you actually get some shit done? She suggests paying yourself first with time. "The challenge is not clearing the decks to get to the point where you finally get the time for that thing," she says. 'You have to find a way to do a little bit of it now'

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.