The Savage Irony Of Trying To Be Productive

The Savage Irony Of Trying To Be Productive - Oliver Burkeman

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@ChrisWillx Ай бұрын

Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - chriswillx.com/books/ Here's the timestamps: 00:00 What is Imperfectionism? 04:20 Stop Trying to Fully Control Your Life 13:24 Why Everyone Should Have a Productivity Phase 17:09 Defining Insecure Overachievers 25:25 Can You Rehabilitate an Insecure Overachiever? 32:41 How to Not Be Your Worst Enemy 37:18 Confronting Painful Truths 41:20 Overcomplicating the Art of Reading 52:27 You Can’t Care About Everything 56:16 Let the Future Be the Future 1:03:15 The Magic of Finishing Things 1:07:45 Removing Obsession From Consistency 1:11:38 How to Find Focus in Chaos 1:18:45 The Key to Enjoying Life 1:22:43 Where to Find Oliver

@thebrownfrog Ай бұрын

I can't believe people watch Netflix when there's this

@oliamoliakorea4218 Ай бұрын

This timestamps is really helpful

@ritalewis1021 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the helpful life info put simply.

@joekagerer Ай бұрын

4 days, Only 52,000 views? Only 76 comments? with 2.72M subscribers? HOW? WHY? This is GOLD! I have to listen to this again and look into Oliver Burkeman. Thank You!

@hoffmans.choice Ай бұрын

I know that I used to pay more attention to who the guest was. Once you've exhausted the majority of your influences, you find the rewarding nature of digesting other types of knowledge.

@TribuniPlebis Ай бұрын

Not everyone wants to be productive, especially not at this stage in the cycle.

@jzen1455 22 күн бұрын

For 20+ years I've consumed numerous podcasts, books, and articles about self-help, psychology, philosophy, productivity, and other subjects about improving one's self but continually feel a sense of incompleteness and falling short of my potential. I do experience tiny snippets of complete peace without the constant gnawing desire to conquer my extreme laziness and tendency to procrastinate, but those moments are very rare, and the void of not being enough totally surrounds me nearly at all times. I'm learning to be okay with my imperfections, but it's not as easy as just telling myself I'm okay as I am. I'm constantly "turning a new leaf" and "rising from the ashes", but it feels like I'm just spinning my wheels in mud going nowhere.

@ancientfuture9690 Ай бұрын

This reminds me of a favourite quote of mine... “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives” - Annie Dillard This small slice of almost dull, unmystical yet profound wisdom has always helped me, when I’ve forgotten about what’s important and the memories and meaning I’ll have (and leave behind) when on my deathbed.

@user-kq6ju6hc1w Ай бұрын

Do you recall what book this was from?

@kiara4345 Ай бұрын

@@user-kq6ju6hc1w The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

@victorinprogress Ай бұрын

Clicked this with no expectations and was pleasently surprised. So many gems in here!

@MRKDjarod Ай бұрын

Atmosphere says in a song "Sometimes you gotta give in to win", and this is like the embodiment of that in the world of personal or professional projects. This was fantastic. It deserves a lot more attention that it is getting. I love when Chris is very obviously invested and moved by someone's ideas and writing. He was so interested in a very playful way this episode. He clearly appreciates what Oliver does, as do I. As a side note, Oliver's series on the Waking Up app is BEYOND fantastic. It's how I learned about him, and was just blown away.

@AlexandreUng Ай бұрын

This episode will probably get my personal podcast episode of the year award. I do recognize myself in many concepts discussed. Many highlights regarding the sense of insufficiency and the drive to achieve more. I know Chris talked about it many times before however for some reason it is this episode that really got to me.

@Mariachi1206 Ай бұрын

Blaise Pascal put it right: “Since nature makes us unhappy whatever our state, our desires depict for us a happy state, because they link the state in which we are with the pleasures of that in which we are not. Even if we did attain these pleasures, that would not make us happy, because we should have new desires appropriate to this new state.” Just stop worrying. Do what you like and see where it leads you.

@joshviggiani9844 Ай бұрын

This bloke is nailing describing the path I, and I'm sure a number of other people have been on for years. Lessons of Sisyphean struggling!

@evanrees8106 Ай бұрын

I have never felt more spoken to by an author than I have when reading Oliver Burkemans books.

@Nazy101 Ай бұрын

Oh he wrote books? I’m just hearing about him

@calmestlad Ай бұрын

So much of this resonates, feels like a hug

@unreactive 12 күн бұрын

thanks for recommending this one on the last Q&A; truly one of the best episodes, i paused it a lot

@anabaleclay6949 26 күн бұрын

One of the best books about that feeling - that there’s plenty of time, that I’m still young, that summer has barely started - is The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. I was in tears and emotionally wrecked for days after that book, because that concept is so palpable and you watch the consequences on this virile young man as he walks as if in a trance into old age without living his life. Found it after Nicholas Nassim Taleb mentioned it was one of his favorite books

@razik91 Ай бұрын

Oliver Burkeman is brilliant 👏

@ericdraven3654 Ай бұрын

Oliver Burkeman is my favourite non fiction writer. I love his approach to productivity and time management. Also very funny😮 Cheers from Spain.

@WannabeUltra Ай бұрын

What’s your favorite book? Never heard of him until now

@ericdraven3654 Ай бұрын

@@WannabeUltra Four thousand weeks is his most popular book. But you can read his articles on his blog: they are amazing.

@AlexandreUng Ай бұрын

This guy and Jason Fried the author of rework would get along very well. Jason talks about letting go of the quest for performance in the corporate world. I wonder if Chris would like to talk to him.

@ericdraven3654 Ай бұрын

@@AlexandreUng I didnt know that writer. Sounds interesting.

@RecoveringHermit Ай бұрын

Dammit. This one is really hitting home.

@thehardhustlers 28 күн бұрын

See the problem with listening to modern wisdom is "the shit that sticks, sticks" is a lot more than 1 or 2 things per podcast like Chris says. The number of screenshots in my camera roll of the transcripts are insane. Most episodes (such as this one) leave me with the thought "there were so many gems in this that I HAVE to listen to this one again so I can take notes"

@rupertarthur8448 Ай бұрын

One of the best episodes I've watched

@oliamoliakorea4218 Ай бұрын

This is the only interview that I do not really follow. But, by reading the timestamps by Chris Williamson' crew and listening to Chris's responses, I got it.

@RobbyFischerMusic Ай бұрын

This episode! Thank you so much for doing this one. This is honestly a life-changer. I mean it, thank you

@JocelynAlsdorf Ай бұрын

Gotta agree here - this episode is special. Wow. I will be coming back to it.

@ginashepherd9552 Ай бұрын

Loving this. I'm so relating to all of it! Enjoy Oliver. Thank you.

@Wise4HarvestTime Ай бұрын

The title grabbed my attention Good conversation

@mitsuman5555 Ай бұрын

Chris I’m glad you’ve stopped messing about and finally decided to drop an episode specifically for me 😂. I’ve never had one hit so close to home, thanks for this.

@bensherman2499 Ай бұрын

This hits home so hard. I feel so seen haha. Everything u guys said was so relatable. I find it so hard to relax and be present with things, I'm always trying to be productive and it becomes so exhausting. Even my body is tight and my traps and neck feel so stiff, I want to lessen the structures I have created and be more free and present. I delay gratification and happiness Way too muchhh

@thecheppey7757 Ай бұрын

Amazing episode with two of my favorite online intellects. Thanks so much ❤

@utkarshagrawal3630 Ай бұрын

at 52:18 the point Mr. Oliver makes is so true for me I make notes in my notebook and sometime during eating as I cant write while eating I open netflix watching random shit which Im like wtf is it half the time

@CollinRutherford Ай бұрын

Recognizing that we can’t control everything but can still thrive is empowering and realistic.

@charlesb2895 Ай бұрын

Everyone should read his book 4,000 weeks, it’s very clever

@Fernando_chavira__ Ай бұрын

Just commenting to support the algorithm since this is so good! Keep up the good work!

@xyz8864 Ай бұрын

Thankyou for the content Chris - awesome podcast and guests. It's been interesting to watch you grow

@jamesbrackiniv Ай бұрын

Was curious when this was coming out, had Oliver on my podcast a few weeks ago and man is his work more relevant then ever.

@selfishv2 Ай бұрын

Incredible work thank you for this

@LiebsterFeind Ай бұрын

The concept of "externalized locus of control" was covered in great depth in "Transactional Analysis", a branch of psychology study. Although the term used by that philosophy/study was "until scripts" as in "I will continue to do this... until this happens...". For example, "Once I get rich, I'll start taking better care of myself", etc.

@producedbypodcast Ай бұрын

One of my favourite authors. My dream is to speak with him on my podcast too. Thanks for this, Chris!

@htownblue11 Ай бұрын

Let’s keep this simple…..start the journey because the journey is the reward not the idea of your destination.

@Theminimountaindog Ай бұрын

Never related to anything more! Can’t even relax on vacations because I’m not “getting the most out of it”

@obsidiantain Ай бұрын

Really hoped you’d have Oliver for the new book!

@arnobbal2059 Ай бұрын

I wanna hear the sick beats that Oliver has clearly been working on 🎹

@xAmerlioration Ай бұрын

Schema therapy hits on a lot of this. The unrelenting standards schema for highly driven achievers. It also takes notice how unrelenting standards is often an overcompensation. why do you keep describing as insecure achievers. The book reinventing your life by Jeffrey Young, has a lot of really great stuff on this topic. Many other great topics as well

@anananwar Ай бұрын

My favorite philosopher disguised as a productivity guru.

@CJB333 Ай бұрын

This kind of idea reminds me of the Christian thing of getting into heaven by keeping the enthusiasm of a child. When you're enjoying something just because you enjoy what it is.

@johnsondeng Ай бұрын

This week's podcast hits extra hard as I've been doing a lot of work to get better and improve myself over the last few months. Ooof 😅

@tylerasmith52 Ай бұрын

I don’t think the take away of this podcast is “don’t improve yourself” haha. But realizing there will never be a future “perfect you” is the main point, so enjoy the PROCESS of self development. The arrival-fallacy is the problem

@johnsondeng Ай бұрын

@@tylerasmith52 My takeaway was not was what you assumed with "don't approve yourself" ... Mine was really about that chronic delayed happiness mindset syndrom about imagining an ideal future in which things would feel easy and automatic, but only if I work harder now. I do agree about the part about enjoying the process--and remembering to enjoy it.

@charm888 Ай бұрын

I'm glad you made this video, it reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, honest wife, $75k biweekly and a good daughter full of love❤️

@kaguyakobe Ай бұрын

how

@manvirsupra9302 Ай бұрын

"The 21st century memento mori is me thinking about the fact that one day I'll be dead but my email address will still continue to receive emails" - Blew me away

@pekkaastrom7346 Ай бұрын

Baah, this is an old theme, and John Lennon wrote about it on the album Revolver, 1966. "Im Only Sleeping". 🌶️

@jzen1455 22 күн бұрын

Chris Williamson is the English version of Tim Ferris.

@realsatoshihashimoto Ай бұрын

"A man's got to know his limitations." - Dirty Harry

@ancientfuture9690 Ай бұрын

When I hit my late thirties and surrendered myself to this immovable fact, it was such a bloody relief 😂

@mchammer1836 Ай бұрын

Classic 😄

@VikingSummer Ай бұрын

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@flash3403 Ай бұрын

Day 14 of asking Mr. Chris Williamson about his turgid, tediously pompous or bombastic, and aspiring trophy husband forearms routine.

@mateuszwawrzynski8696 Ай бұрын

What headphones do you use?

@bumpupsapp Ай бұрын

Hey Everyone 🤠 Find the parts that interest you: 0:00 - What is imperfection ISM? 2:14 - Embracing life's inherent limitations 6:03 - The world opens up when you accept chaos 10:36 - Life often feels like a prelude 17:01 - Insecure overachievers seek validation through success 20:43 - Fun versus obligation in life’s work 24:01 - Enjoying leisure without guilt or purpose 31:06 - Life choices: enlarging or diminishing? 32:40 - The reverse Golden Rule explained 38:01 - Embracing the liberation of defeat 41:22 - The challenge of information overload 46:30 - The obligation of content to engage you 51:51 - The challenge of caring about everything 54:57 - Importance of choosing your battles 57:10 - Accepting uncertainty about the future 1:02:39 - Reflecting on unexpected death 1:06:31 - Creating a 'well done' list 1:12:57 - Importance of protecting undisturbed time 1:15:34 - Achieving three hours of deep work 1:20:54 - Letting go to enjoy life fully Recap by Bumpups ✏️