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96: Time Management for Mortals: Oliver Burkeman

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

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Are You Getting More Important Things Done?

In your book, you say the world is bursting with wonder and yet it's the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder. Is it simply for you that sort of getting to this sort of frustration, you got a lot done but in getting a lot done, you weren't getting more important things done? Yeah. I mean, that's definitely one of the symptoms, right? One of the things that happens if you really put a lot of effort and discipline into becoming more efficient at processing your tasks or so I discovered anyway was that you get really, really good at doing the least important

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