How To Be Sanely Productive | Oliver Burkeman
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How To Be Sanely Productive | Oliver Burkeman

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 hr 10 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

The liberation that comes from realizing that you're never going to get everything done. Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks, The Antidote, and most recently, Meditations for Mortals. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher. He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment. This episode originally appeared in April 2024. In this episode we talk about: What the term "im...

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Hey, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today we're bringing a classic conversation out of the archives and bringing it to you.

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My guest is Oliver Berkman, the author of two excellent books that have genuinely changed the way I think about time management, productivity, and mortality. The first is called 4,000 Weeks, a book about time management that takes seriously

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the fact that we're all gonna die. The second, which is the book we're going to talk about mostly in this conversation, is called Meditations for Mortals. Oliver's central argument, and I have found this both deeply annoying and

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