The Liberating Thing About Human Finitude

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There is this kind of, there is this response to the idea of human finitude. And I've got nothing against people spending their lives doing extraordinary things. But if you can sort of let go of that even a little bit and see that there are always going to be too many things to do, you're going to die with a really long to do list. There'salways going to be a million more things that matter than you get a chance to do.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.