How to Stop Wasting Your Life (ft. Oliver Burkeman)

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.

CHAPTERS

Chapters

• 00:00:00 | Introduction
• 00:03:22 | Our relationship with time
• 00:05:49 | A better way of looking at time
• 00:07:32 | “Strategic underachievement”
• 00:11:16 | How to stop people-pleasing
• 00:14:58 | Being a net positive at social events
• 00:18:45 | “Don’t try to change the world”
• 00:21:01 | Our toxic relationship with time and the art of “being present”
• 00:30:41 | “Effortless action”
• 00:32:53 | Buddhist influences on Oliver’s work
• 00:37:51 | Our primary misconception about time management
• 00:39:01 | Oliver’s final word of wisdom

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