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How Productivity Ruins Your Life with Productivity Expert Oliver Burkeman

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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The Problem With Time Management Is That There Are Too Many Big Rocks in the Jar

A teacher brings a glass jar into a class room with some large rocks, some pebbles and some sand. He challenges the student to fit all this into the glass jar. The idea is that if the big rocks are your major properties in life, you've got to make time for those. And i don't think that's a completely meritless point. But the experiment is plainly rigged right. Its setathat th, the professor, the teacher, has only brought as many big os in as he knows can ultimately be made to fit.

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