Shifting from Controlling Time to Inhabiting Time

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The toxic relationship frame related to time involves oscillating between being a domineering, control-obsessed partner and attempting to placate time with activity and exertion, leading to an imbalance between effort and reward. The solution lies in reframing the relationship with time from trying to control it to experiencing and inhabiting it, as this mindset allows for a more fulfilling experience of life.

Do you worry that you might be wasting your life? That you’re doing things that don’t feel important? Are you constantly anxious about your to-do list?

Is your mind blown that it’s 2024 already?!?

This week, I’ve enlisted the help of my friend Oliver Burkeman, author of the bestseller Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, to help us get a handle on using time wisely.

In this episode, we’re going to look at how our perception of time shapes our self-image, how it’s often advantageous to choose to be bad at something, why people-pleasing doesn’t actually please people, and a whole lot more.

Oliver Burkeman is a renowned journalist and author, known for his unique ability to seamlessly blend philosophy and psychology to bring a fresh and counterintuitive take to classic self-help subjects.