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Oliver Burkeman

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“I quote actually Elizabeth Gilbert, the writer in the book saying, No, it's way harder than that. You have to say no to things that you do want to do because there are more things that matter than you have time for. So middling priorities are that friendship that, yeah, it's fine. You know, it's nice when you meet up with that person, but it's not neither of you getting that much out of it. And it's taking another hour away from, I don't know, your partner, your child, your best friend, you know, definitely sort of. Work projects that sort of, yeah, you can do them, you could handle that. It might make you a little bit of money or whatever, but it's just not the number one thing. It takes quite a lot to resist those because they are not unimportant. They're just not important enough.”
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“Whether or not that exercise is a useful exercise, the principle here, I think, is that you have to sort of be especially wary of claims on your attention and your time that do matter a bit, but just not as much as the things that you care about the most. It's very easy to, people talk all the time about the importance of learning to say no, right? But people often, I think in the There's a subtext there, they think what that means is if you just learn to say no to all the stuff you don't want to do, you can spend your time doing stuff you do want to do.”
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“Order them numerically from 1 to 25 and then take the top five on that list and really focus on them in your life and take the next 20 and avoid them like the plague because they are the ones that you care about enough to let them distract you from the top five, but not the ones that are easy to let go of because you don't really care about them, right? They belong in this middle zone.”
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“It's Warren Buffett, Buddha, and Confucius. So hopefully you use what you as well. Yes, right, right, right. But Buffett is supposed to have been asked, like, how do you decide what to prioritize in life? And to have replied that you should make a list of your top 25 goals in life.”
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“Certainly the story that dramatizes is this idea that some people may have heard about. It's attributed to Warren Buffett, but I think probably it didn't come from Warren Buffett. People often just take wise sayings and say that Warren Buffett said it.”
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“Before you know it, it's like better like rearrange my desk so that all the pens are straightened up, whatever. Displacement activities, things that make me feel more in control of my world, but actually don't move the things that I care about forward the most. And I'm getting better on that too, but that's the thing. That's where the struggle is for me. I will definitely spend like long periods of time getting my ducks in a row and clearing the decks. And I write in the book about how you've really got to try and fight this urge to clear the decks because they will never be clear, right? So you've got to just get on with things. But yeah. Work in progress for sure.”
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“On that is not so much anymore with the idea that it's got to be perfect standard. Because if you spend a few years as a journalist, you get that sort of beaten out of you, right? Because like deadlines come, deadlines come. You just got to send the thing in and you stop thinking after a while that your glorious prose has got to be perfect. You can't let it out of your sight until it's perfect because it's just never how it works. Where I still run into trouble is that I do feel this urge to feel in control of all the things that are going on in my life and all the things going on in my work. So it's very tempting for me to say, you know, I've got to write that really important thing or I've got to think through this really important thing. But first, I'm going to make sure that all my inboxes are under control. And then do all that admin about finances that I'd left and I better sort of, and then you're...”
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“Yes, I always feel like my point about that I get asked this question and I'm always like, look, you've got to compare me with who I was before, not with this perfect person, because I am not that perfect person, but I am a lot better at it than I was. Yeah, and where I stumble”
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“So you might as well do it, right? Because it's like people, I think people get caught up in themselves. They think, well, I'm going to make a fool of myself or I'm going to let myself down or I'm going to let my friends or my parents down. But it's like, no, the imperfection, the fact that it will stumble and not be everything you dreamed it could have been, that ship has sailed. That's just for everyone. So now can we just move forward and do our imperfect things? And lots of them will turn out to be fantastic things, but they will all be imperfect because that's what it is to bring things into the world as a human being.”
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“Yeah, because I don't have to have confront my limitations. And what I want to try to convey in that topic in this book anyway, I think, is to say, look, Bringing anything into the world, studying for any qualification, doing any kind of creative work, like launching any kind of business. The imperfection is guaranteed. Like you definitely aren't going to get to bring it into the world exactly in tune with your fantasy. And everyone is in the same boat. And this is completely unavoidable and baked in.”
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“Make the argument anyway, you don't want to feel what it feels like to be limited and imperfect. And so if you hold on to a project, if you keep it in your mind and the world of fantasy, it can stay perfect, it can be later that you're going to do this great thing, any action that actually brings things into the world involves a confrontation with your limitations. Maybe you're not going to have the talent for it. Maybe it's not going to be well received. Maybe it's going to be too complicated. If I'm trying to write a chapter of a book, like the stakes are high for me because I want it to go well, but I don't know that it is going to go well. I want it to be well received, but I don't know that it will be well received. So much nicer to just spend that time doing something kind of Pointless You know, scrolling around or whatever because.”
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“Well, they watch those videos, presumably while they should be getting on with the work in question. That's probably why the procrastination videos are really popular. One level, there's lots of different reasons, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of all sorts of different things. But at the deep level,”
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“It's an agonizing way to live. Usually that's people thinking that they're in a critic demands it or their parents demand it. Obviously, the bigger your audience, the more you can fall into thinking that there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who demand it. But of course, that also gives you the power to do something very helpful and liberating for those people when you break the fourth wall or whatever and point out that it isn't like that.”
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“Well, thinking back we've talked before about like I was just a sort of your garden variety high achiever at school, right? Like the kid getting their A grades or whatever. And a lot of people in that situation have what is called in psychology, probably know like they have a fixed mindset rather than a growth mindset, right? So one of the consequences of this is every time you do well, it's not something to be happy about because you did well. It's like something to feel pressure about because now that's the bar that you've got to reach next time. And it's like, you know, suddenly your success has become this standard that you've now got to meet every single time in the future. And that is like”
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“It's fascinating, and I think it must be, it's a lot worse with a high public profile, but I do think it's kind of almost a universal trait that a lot of people have. A lot of people who are sort of...”
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“Well, if you really begin to internalize that it's impossible, then it can't be what you need to do in order to feel okay about yourself. Maybe you're okay already, and then the things that you do in the world are kind of extra. And then I think the message of our being finite, the message of our being limited is not so now you've got to squeeze value out of every moment and go base jumping every weekend or something. Otherwise, have you really lived? It's much more like, okay, oh, great. The pressure's off. I can't do an impossible amount. I can only do a few of the things that seem like they matter. So all I need to do is choose for now which ones seem the most important and focus on them and give my energy to them and it's much more doable.”
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“Driven to accomplish stuff because they feel like they need to accomplish stuff. Like it's not okay if they don't accomplish stuff. And so that is a kind of never ending treadmill as well because why are you going to decide that any particular given level of output or accomplishment is the one way you can relax? And I think one of the things I'm always at pains to try to get across talking about this book is that Is meant to be a relaxing message, right? I think this is a liberating message that can be like a weight off your shoulders because if you see that what you were doing was trying to do an impossible amount in order to feel like okay about yourself on some deep, buried level.”
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“And I, yeah, I mean, I'd be interested to know if this resonates with you. For me, when I've got into that kind of groove, that place where you're sort of pursuing efficiency at the expense of everything else, for me anyway, part of what's going on was always to do with self-worth, right? It's this idea that you've got to get to this point where you are this optimal and this efficient and productive that you wouldn't really be justifying your existence on the planet somehow if you didn't do all these things.”
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“Yeah, absolutely, right. And it's just when you spell it out like that, it's like, of course. And, you know, I remember when I was. A young journalist sort of feeling overwhelmed by the number of articles I was being asked to write. So you get really, really better at writing them really fast and you get a reputation for being able to write quite a long, complicated article in a short amount of time. Like, who's the editor going to ask when the next one comes up, right? I mean, and, you know, I got a lot of benefit from being the person that the editor asked, but it certainly didn't make me less busy.”
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“Right, you get completely fixated on valuing the present only in terms of how it is going to help create the future thing. And then you find what happens is that actually you get further and further away from achieving that thing because in trying to make yourself more efficient and trying to sort of process more and more tasks to get closer to your goal. Make yourself more efficient, and then more and more tasks flood in to fill the excess capacity. This is Parkinson's law and a whole lot of other kind of goes by a whole lot of names, but it's this idea that, yeah, if all you do is make yourself more efficient, then you'll just be dealing with a greater incoming volume of things.”
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“I think it must be and really is, and I think we are sort of goal seeking organisms. I think it's hugely compounded by the culture in which we live and the economic system in which we live. And I think it's sort of gone into warp speed in a way that we could step back from. But I also think that it's not about giving up goals, right? It's not about stopping trying to achieve things in the future. It's about not investing the whole value of what you're doing in those future outcomes. You can't build anything, a relationship, business, creative work. You can't do it unless you are partly focused on where you're going. But you don't have to be... Exclusively focused on where you're going. And I would say you probably shouldn't be exclusively focused on where you're going because it will damage the Product that Creating as well.”
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“You don't have to acknowledge the fact that, like, this is it, life isn't a dress rehearsal. Like, you've got to do things now if you're ever going to do them. There's a great quote from John Mayne Arkane, the economist that I use in there about how people who live in this mindset, and he's talking about pretty much everyone really, they're trying to secure for their actions. I won't get this exactly right. They're trying to secure for their actions a spurious and delusive immortality by always pushing them into the future, right? So the man who thinks like this Keynes writes doesn't love his cat, but only his cat's kittens and not really the kittens, but the kitten's kittens and so on forever, right? And so the downside is that you never get to enjoy and value and find fulfillment in life now. But the upside is it sort of helps you feel like you might be going to live forever. It's kind of useful to be putting things off because it helps this act of denial that we're all engaged in.”
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“Deferring it get off into the future. Right. And I think, you know, something that's important to say about that is, I think that mindset I've seen it called, and I refer to it in the book as like when I finally mindset, right? It's like when something happens, then the moment of truth is going to come and after that life is going to be fulfilling and easy but not yet. I mean, it's obviously, as you say, it's totally like drains the meaning out of life in the present. But it serves again, it serves this purpose of avoidance, right? Because if you're always storing up fulfillment for the future,”
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“And the sort of great inventors and the great Figures like all these people did things that people thought were previously thought were impossible, yeah, but they didn't, they very, very deliberately understood that using their time the way they wanted to use it meant sacrifices. It meant neglecting things that would be completely good things to do, right? I'm sure you know what I'm talking about here, right? I mean, it's like there are... 25 things you could do. It's not that only one of them is any good, like 24 of them are good, but even so, most of them are going to have to have to be able to withstand the anxiety of just neglecting most of them in order to focus on.”
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“Confronting it and feeling it and living into it is actually the precondition of doing the most sort of extraordinary things with a life because you get to kind of give up on this impossible quest to fit yourself to every expectation that the world might have.”
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“Productivity, for example, the quest to try to do everything to become like limitlessly optimized so that you can handle all your incoming email, you can pursue all your ambitions and business ventures, you can meet all the obligations you feel from your family and friends or from society. Do it all like that. That's trying to become unlimited, right? That's trying to become limitless. And there are lots of other examples of this where I think what we're really doing is just trying to avoid feeling our finitude. And some people want to say, well, isn't it great to believe that we're limitless because then you can do astonishing things? And I want to say, no, I think the kind of limitation I'm talking about.”
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“Vulnerability to other people and things they might do to hurt you or bad things that might happen to them that would cause you to suffer. And so we're in this kind of very, very limited. Situation, and I guess the main argument in my book is that if we followed through the ramifications of that, we would use our time in a somewhat different way. And actually, I think a more relaxing way. I don't think it's a kind of recipe for stress. The title is probably a recipe for stress.”
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“So we're very finite in our amount of time. We're obviously finite on the daily level of the amount of time we have, but also finite in how much control we can exert over it, right? Nobody knows what's happening in the very next moment. You can take actions to increase the likelihood that what you want is going to happen, but we're all totally sort of vulnerable to events and to every moment. It's increasingly impossible to have sort of complete knowledge about anything that you're doing or any sphere in which you're acting. And then, you know, relationships just inherently involve, you know, romantic relationships, but all relationships, it just inherently involve this kind of”
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“That is terrifying. I thought I had more than that. It's a risky decision, I realize in hindsight to give the book this title because it might just cause people to run away from the bookshop and not buy the book. But anyway,”
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“Seems to me, and it's certainly my experience, but I think it is more universal than just like my issues, seems to me that a lot of what we do, the way we behave in the world and the way we try to manage our time especially, it's all really based around trying to avoid confronting something about our situation. It's a kind of an emotional avoidance. It's to avoid feeling what it is like to be who we are, which is finite human beings, right? 4,000 weeks, the title refers to the approximate length of average lifespan in the West.”
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“And a lot of these things are so new. Like writing is incredibly modern invention on the evolutionary timescale, let alone podcasting. And this is a sort of very low grade productivity idea that I've written about and I think is really important is to try to think about anything you're doing in terms of physical actions and physical next actions. And so one thing I do when I'm writing, for example, is I sort of set goals that are to do with creating physical documents, right? I'm going to do this. I'm going to write this. I'm going to print it out. And it's going to have something on my desk to hold in my hands that I did today. It's very easy to get lost in that world that doesn't have hard edges, that doesn't have a physicality in it. And it's very alluring because it feels kind of, you feel sort of godlike in that world if you spend all day sort of with your head mainly occupying cyberspace or the metaverse. But yeah.”
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“The studies are being outdoors And I think the problem is so many of us now. I mean, writers are the sort of ultimate example, but so many of us, you for sure, like we're doing what we're mainly doing with our days is manipulating symbols in one way or another, right? Images, words, ideas all day long.”
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“Yeah, yeah, I've heard, yeah, I've had such a good point. I've heard somebody express this as like, you should ask, are you doing a few things every day that your ancestors would have done? What, 250,000 years of kicks?”
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“Like a friend or a relation of yours is going through a crisis and you're helping them out in some way. You're there to just as some company. I recall one example when some friends of mine were going through a really awful thing and I was like literally like doing the dry cleaning for them, right? It was just like they just needed help in this kind of way. And you have that feeling of like I'm in the right place here. This is there isn't something else I ought to be doing now. Doesn't mean it's fun because the whole situation is awful doesn't mean it's in great activity because doing someone's dry cleaning is not necessarily a great activity but but you know that you're in the right place and I think that we can hope to have that feeling about quite a lot of the sort of work and other things that we do in non-crisis moments. So that's how I kind of think about that. This is a good use of this day of your very limited time on the planet.”
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“And I don't think this language works for everybody, but for me, it's like, oh, okay, you can tell that there are times when life is not enjoyable, but it's about growth, what you're doing. It's like it's good that you're doing it and it's meaningful that you're doing it. And then there are times when life might be perfectly fun. But if you really stop and think about it, it's like. I think an acute example of this that most people will have experience of is”
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“I mean, it's the question, and I don't think I've come to the final answer in any of this. But I think meaning, it's a really fascinating idea because I think people know. In a sort of intuitive way, whether what they're doing is meaningful. There's a question that I write about that comes from a psychotherapist called James Hollis, whose work has been really had a really big impact on me, which is to ask of a choice or of a life path that you might be on, whether it's enlarging you or diminishing you”
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“The sort of crassest kind of positive thinking fails just because the human mind does not work like that. If you decide that you're always going to fill your mind with positive upbeat optimistic thoughts, then every negative thought that creeps in is like a new failure and something to feel stressed about and something to try to stamp out. And that's just sort of not true to the situation of like who we are, which is a big mixture of all sorts of feelings.”
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“Turning your attention away from happiness and finding happiness that way through sort of the pursuit of reality, right? Through engaging in meaningful activities and we can talk about what meaningful means, I suppose, but not sort of what will make me feel better or best as the navigation aid that you use in life and then happiness coming as a sort of a secondary effect of that. I think, you know,”
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“I mean, yeah, in terms of misconceptions, I think that the sort of fundamental one that I was writing about in that earlier book is the idea that happiness is best achieved by aiming for happiness. Setting out in your life to get happy is there's something amiss with this notion, right? Happiness is the kind of thing that seems to arise as a byproduct of certain kinds of meaningful activity. But if you make it the sort of goal of your life, you can sort of bear down on it too much and then it sort of goes away. The book on some level is about”
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“Much more to do with being open to negative stuff and being willing to feel anxiety, insecurity, uncertainty, and the potential for failure and all those things is actually a much more resilient way to be in the world, I think. Plus, I guess it's kind of the contribution that I can make to the world of self-help and things like that is to bring my kind of pessimistic, slightly sardonic, I don't know, British Northern. I don't know where this comes from culturally, really, but like... Of a field like the self-help industry. Just so much of this is rubbish, and at the same time, the topic that this is ultimately about is really important. And you can't just dismiss it completely.”
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“I mean, by the time I wrote that, I was sort of, I'd given all these things a lot of thought. I'd written this column for the Guardian for quite a few years, and I sort of noticed this pattern emerging In the approaches and the philosophies that really seem to do something for me and to sort of lift my spirits, help me navigate the world a bit more, more calmly and effectively. And they were not what I call in that book positive thinking, right? They were not fill your mind with upbeat thoughts and set incredibly ambitious goals and try to push yourself relentlessly towards achieving them. It was actually...”
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“Fascinated by them, and I think I'm fascinated by them because I on some level struggle with them, right? I mean, I don't think anyone, if they're honest, writes about happiness who is just completely happy all the time. Because then that topic is boring to that person. I think I'm probably pretty anxious person going back, less so now, having spent years kind of therapizing myself in public in columns and books. That sense that you sort of need to find some secret to address your own issues and also when it comes to sort of productivity and time management and all those topics, it's like maybe if I could find the system that would put me in total control of my time, then maybe I wouldn't need to feel worried about the future and, you know, things like that. We're all just sort of revealing our deepest.”
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“That's a good question. I mean, I think early when I was a journalist, I was doing whatever I needed to do. And a lot of that was kind of news. More newsy, but I've always wanted to try to bring into that kind of daily context these big serious ideas. And I think it's just because”
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“People talk all the time about the importance of learning to say no, right? There's a subtext there. They think what that means is if you just learn to say no to all the stuff you don't want to do, you can spend your time doing the stuff you do want to do. It's way harder than that. You have to say no to things that you do want to do. We are wired for racing through things. All of us who are sort of moving at this speed need to experiment a little bit with like what it feels like to just slow down to the speed that things take. Any action that actually brings things into the world involves a confrontation with your limitations. Getting through that discomfort to what lies on the other side is so empowering.”
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