The idea of a Sabbath is that one day a week you down tools, not because you've finished everything but just because people won't be working. And I think it's really interesting that what you point out there about that period around the holidays, that's like a last vestige in some ways of a social rhythm. It acts as a buffer to the idea that we've just got to do more, more, more,. More, more,More, more.
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.
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