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How To Stop Making To-Do Lists & Use Your Time For What Actually Matters With Oliver Burkeman

The Liz Moody Podcast

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The Ten Tools for Embracing Finitude

In your book you share ten tools for embracing finitude. Finitude that word exists though right? I did not invent it but it doesn't get used very much outside of academic philosophical discovery so maybe I'm sort of popularizing it or something. The idea is if we acknowledge the fact that we live a finite life how can we live our best within those constraints. It works against this dispiriting tendency to just make a really long list, start it and then find that you've added more things to it by the end of the day than you'd crossed offIt. That's a way to sort of fall into reality in a way that will cause you to get more done.

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