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Thursday, 9 February 2023

How not to manage your time

Our relationships with time need to change: We call it “time management,” but journalist Oliver Burkeman challenges us to unpack that phrase in the latest episode of On Being with Krista Tippett, a spiritual and immersive award-winning podcast that unpacks the biggest questions around human life and existence. Burkeman wants us to rethink our relationships with time from something to conquer, to something slippery and at times beyond our control, and to acknowledge that there are limits to what we can do with it. We stumbled upon this episode while looking for time management solutions for our overscheduled lives, but were pleasantly surprised with the refreshing shift of perspective. (listen, runtime 50:45).

DIG DEEPER- Want to do some extra reading? Pick up a copy of Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Or head over to The Guardian and scroll through the column he wrote from 2006 to 2020, titled, “This Column Will Change Your Life.”

WHERE TO STREAM IT- Apple or Google Podcasts, or Spotify.

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