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Oliver Burkeman: Against Time Management

Hurry Slowly

CHAPTER

The Importance of Resting

There's something essentially identical between the much sought after a spiritual goal of being present in the moment and the idea of being truly completely idle. I think there's also this problem that when we get into this time controlling mindset, we get very, very convinced that some version of kind of efficiency or optimization is the way forward. But it's really clear from personal experience, from research, from all sorts of things that you get really, really efficient at doing stuff, you don't get less busy. You become a more and more efficient machine for processing work for various different reasons.

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