The Importance of Persistence in Life

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"I keep a journal every night I write in a five year diary where I write and then you know there's four entries on each page for the same day for five years in the future" "The joke that I've made to my girlfriend is oh I'm writing this so that when they start the Adam Conover library in the future that they'll be able to go through the documents," he says. "It's just like it's can only be part of the mix I suppose yeah"

All of us have too much to do and too little time to do it in. Yet the more we try to increase our productivity, the less happy and productive we seem to be. Why, and what’s the solution? This week Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, joins Adam to discuss how to break the cycle of productivity shame with his radical new approach to looking at time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.