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Oliver Burkeman - The JOY of Missing Out

The Imperfects

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Do You Use It to Do List?

I've basically, I keep a sort of comprehensive list of everything that's on my plate in there. And then found a lot of power when it comes to focus and getting over procrastination in a sort of absurdly simple system which is quite literally in a hard copy notebook. Is that so you don't have this comprehensive list on the computer beforehand? No, exactly. Now I try to break it up into like two or three hours for writing at the core. The only other element that’s worth mentioning is that he tries to spend most of his time with people who are really close to him rather than trying to do anything else. So thank you. But thanks.

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