This week discuss Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. A fantastic writer who gave us a timely perspective on the antidote to modern productivity strategies and how embracing finitude and accepting our limitations as the way to a more fulfilling life.

Hope you enjoy.

Will & Luke

00:00 Introductions

02:20 What the book is about (Choosing to Choose & Beyond Control)

05:00 Time as a resource and living like we are 'limitless' (leads to us putting off what is important)

13:50 Acknowledging limitations is free-ing. The face we can choose is free-ing. Choosing things to say to no. We have to say no to what we want to do sometimes

15:35 Facing finitude

17:15 Issues around planning (trying to control the future and avoid uncertainty)

20:00 5 Questions around living in deep time (1. Where in life are you pursuing comfort when you'd be better off exploring discomfort?)

26:25 2.Are you judging yourself or holding yourself by standards of performance that are impossible to meet (deciding what to fail at)

32:00 Cosmic Insignificance Therapy (there is meaning in the finite, we don't constantly need to strive to be happy, leisure time doesn't need to be productive) (How would you spend your time differently if you didn't need to watch your actions take fruition?)

40:15 In which areas of life are you still holding back until you know what you're doing? (Everyone is winging it - don't wait to pursue things

42:45 Question 3. In what ways have you yet to accept the fact you are who you are not the person you think you ought to be?

44:30 Tools to embrace finitude: take a fixed volume approach to productivity, make pre-determined time boundaries for daily work, focus on one big project at a time, keep a done list, consolidate your caring - manage your inputs, embrace single use tech, practice doing nothing.

55:35 Managing time with others (the benefits of collective rhythms) (the loneliness of the digital nomad)

1:05:30 Value of patience (to develop unique creative endeavours)

1:08:30 Final reflections

Find the book: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/

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#41 Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman, 2021)