"Time is so existential for us, and how our failed manipulations of it are related to our own relationship with our inevitable demise," he says. "If we can't intellectually convince ourselves that we are going to get away with actually not having die, then we can at least do the sort of functional equivalent - which adds up to an infinite amount in the time that we do have." The author also talks about why traditional time management is garbage. 'It's always going to be the people with the least power in that situation who bear the greatest burdens of the demands for greater efficiency'
Why does it always feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get work done? How did we come to see time as a resource we could manipulate and exploit? Why does achieving “inbox zero” come with bragging rights? And how has the belief that we can command and control time totally warped not only our personal lives, but also our working lives?
In today's episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans start to tease apart a few of the brain-expanding questions with guest Oliver Burkeman, the best-selling author of Four Thousand Weeks. Together, they explore what we don’t talk about when we talk about modern time management.
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