The Truth About Being Here Now

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"The strange thing is that I wasn't a successful artist," she says. "I was arrested for medicine before I was agrize because my sons danced in the militarygaardi you know, capitalism and productivity focused culture." She adds: "It's so much more transformative to sort of become more conscious of what's already true than it is to sort of relaunch your life"

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.