"I find that so interesting because we're often presented with that as sort of the essence of maturity is being able to do something difficult because it's going to pay off in the future. I've started to appreciate how infected my life has become by that point of view like a couple years ago I got sick of you know I used to like when I read a book," he said. "There's a reason we like to postpone meaning off into the future there's a whole set of reasons" He also revealed his plans for 2021, which include reading more science fiction novels and writing an episode about them.
All of us have too much to do and too little time to do it in. Yet the more we try to increase our productivity, the less happy and productive we seem to be. Why, and what’s the solution? This week Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals, joins Adam to discuss how to break the cycle of productivity shame with his radical new approach to looking at time.
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