"I've been trying to write, you know, I made some YouTube videos last year they were successful and I want to make more," he says. "What I found was I honestly could not do it and I kept having to push." He has now started writing for two hours in the morning every day instead of putting himself on a 'trick deadline' The idea came from his girlfriend who went to urgent care with him when she felt ill but had no time to get her work done.
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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