#238 Ask the Expert: Time with Oliver Burkeman
Squiggly Careers
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Do We Need to Let Go of the Idea of Control?
Cauld: I think plans help us to feel in control. But i suspect it can also get in the way a bit of spending our time, and maybe making changes kind of in the present. So do you think we need to let go of the idea that we can aspire to be in control of our time? Cauld: It is just things that human beings can't do. You've got to make tough choices. Every decision to use an hour for anything is a decision to not use it for a million other things. And a go on. That kind of impossible control, it just becomes less of a alluring prospect because it's sort of achieved disillusionment.
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