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#365 - Oliver Burkeman - How To Properly Manage Your Time

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You Have Your Finger in Multiple Pies?

I think another reason that people like having their fingers in multiple fires is that it creates an n of one that gives them culpable deniability about why they might not be performing particularly well within a particular industry. So if you are the only scape boarding, cricketing, body building, salesperson of insurance in the k that also moonlights as a chef, then, right, being a bit shit at all of them almost gets excused because it i care, but no one else is doing this. And ye have your finger in multiple pies. That relates to something else that i write about, which is that there's real power in the willingness to invest the time in sticking to one

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