The Reward for Good Time Management

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The pursuit of efficiency as a way to win the struggle with time will actually make you busier than before. Partly this is just a matter of quantity, but there's another dimension to this pitfall that I'm calling the efficiency trap. If you focus obsessively on trying to fit more and more into your day, you're likely to end up spending more and more of your time on the least important things.

Sam Harris presents an unconventional perspective on time management from Oliver Burkeman. Rather than focusing on rote efficiency or productivity, Burkeman calls on us to embrace our finitude and surrender to the rhythms of life, so that we may “end our struggle with time”—and live with “more accomplishment, more success, and more time spent on what matters most.”

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