You Are Wrong About Productivity (ft. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman)

I recently had a severe panic attack and it made me reevaluate the way I look at productivity and time management. From the book - Four Thousands Week: Time Management for Mortals - I discovered that there are many downsides of putting too much on your plate and overwhelming your schedule. In this video, I discuss the danger of "over-productivity", why we do it, and ways you can manage it. Enjoy!
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- Chapters -
[0:00] Intro
[0:57] The paradox of Productivity
[3:04] Human's limit
[4:53] How to embrace your limit
[5:52] Three questions to help you reassess
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Work cited
www.ted.com/talks/oliver_burk...
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman)
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[@kiyoshitakeda452]

Interesting ideas especially doing something for yourself vs others. Thanks.

[@seansailBruce]

Anticipating more work from U

[@Martinmr07]

I absolutely love your channel. Listening to you makes me think about my current state.

[@garybrown5824]

A simple technique is to keep "Good enough Is." handy as a coping skill. Few things in everyday life demand and perfection. Keep up your good, valuable work. We value it.

[@Expatriate_1972]

Panic attacks, I remember those. Each day has a morning, an afternoon and an evening. I tend to do 3 things. From morning til night. Used to have a top 10 list, but that was accompanied by panic attacks

[@seansailBruce]

Enjoyed a lot

[@darleightenmusic1713]

Great advice. I wish even as a neuroscientist I would know the answer to how to force myself not to do something that I like but that comes at the cost of missing sth that I perhaps don't like as much but I need... In theory the mechanism for that is mostly clear, but how to apply it in practice is very difficult...

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[@SimingLan]

thank you! and welcome:)

[@cocoanutte]

Thanks for mentioning this book. It's sobering to realize how quickly those 4000 weeks slip by. There must be a Chinese idiom to explain this feeling.

[@SimingLan]

Yep! now that you mentioned it, it's ‘光阴似箭，日月如梭‘ (Sun and moon shuttle, while time flies like an arrow) 😁

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[@freedloh9049]

Singapore is an example of this paradox on a national level

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[@SimingLan]

Thanks for dropping by! What's your biggest takeaway?

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[@deblstudioz]

U r very interesting person .I hope to see u level up also and assume u watch Ali Abdal ,correct ? Anyway wish u get ur aimed at goals

[@williamkauffman5745]

pace yourself and have reasonable expectations of yourself

[@oldsachem]

Dear Miss Lan, Is Love finite? How should an enlightened human being apply good time management principles to love?

[@AngelMalaika1974]

At your young age you want to be something… whereas, at my matured age I am more a more yearning for become nothing.

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