Does life ever feel like an endless to-do list? Like if you could just wake up tomorrow with a little more discipline, you’d finally master your schedule, achieve balance, and feel… enough?
On today's episode, Oliver Burkeman (bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals) and Kate unravel some of the beautiful lies we cling to about time and control, the fantasy of hyper-efficiency, and what it might look like to embrace the limits that make us who we are.
In this conversation, Kate and Oliver discuss:
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Some of the most common self-help myths that stand in our way
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Why the relentless pursuit of self-improvement often leaves us feeling empty, anxious, and overwhelmed.
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How embracing our limits can lead to more contentment
This is a conversation about limits—not as something to overcome, but as a doorway to something richer, deeper, and (dare I say) more human.
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