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How To Stop Making To-Do Lists & Use Your Time For What Actually Matters With Oliver Burkeman

The Liz Moody Podcast

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The Importance of Community Time Off

I think that this desire to sort of create good new habits can really get in the way of just doing those things right so there's often something to be said for saying okay I'm going to just do it for ten minutes now. In Swedish workplaces they have this tradition called the FICO basically a coffee break although they're quite proud of it and if you call it a coffee break they get insulted but it happens at the same time. There are all sorts of reasons why this would be the case if you work for an organization like some European ones where like everybody's off for the same weeks in August. You don't need to worry about getting behind on projects that other people are working on

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