
242. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management with Oliver Burkeman
Psychologists Off the Clock
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The Costs of Not Performing
Sometimes there can be almost an addictive quality to being busy, or to this fast paced living that we all get into. And so i just curious if you could talk a little bit about that cycle. Why do we get into that cycle of just productivity and efficiency and business and what do you think are the costs of that? Yes. Well, in speaking of that, discomfort and an avoidance. So it might not be a universal thing, but i think that am that sense that you're building systems and disciplining yourself to become more and more efficient. That that is, that performing seems to me a very obvious and useful, but ultimately detrimental, psychological job. It turns everything you're doing
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