"There is still a psychological liberation in understanding that it is impossible to do impossible amounts of things," he says. "If you can understand why you keep on doing something that you don't really want to be doing, well, firstly, you might see that you have more choice than you realized." He adds: "Even if you decide that actually you can't, you've still gone through that process of making it conscious".
In this episode of Remotely Curious, we talk to best-selling author Oliver Burkeman about how to reset our relationship to time, how to meet demands without colluding with them, and how to keep perspective by focusing on what’s most meaningful to you.