Oliver Burkeman | Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It | Talks at Google
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Oliver Burkeman discuss his book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It." We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights from both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time and to liberate us from its tyranny.
Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for The Guardian called This Column Will Change Your Life. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher. He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.
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Moderated by Rob Leworthy.
Best concept: working on important things create internal discomfort at times, and choosing distractions temporarily remove us from our discomfort. When you find yourself choosing a distraction from an important person/project/activity, ask yourself what discomfort were you experiencing?
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Great talk. Thankyou. Workaholism - one of the few unrecognised addictions which can destroy your health and which is publicly sanctioned, praised and applauded. Workaholics who drive themselves into the ground need to allow themselves more down-time to do nothing, goof off and just BE. 😊
❤ I love the automatic caption. Thanks.
Great talk. And here I am, watching this video at 2x speed, because I have learned nothing.
I already know 4000 weeks is a little more than 70 maybe 80 years -The lifespan of a human.
I was a bit surprised, when I calculated my grandmothers age.
80 years isn’t that long.
I always think about my life as a phone battery: about 75% to go.
Great insights there .... as always from Oliver, many thanks
top 2 are, 14:15 reality of life's Finitude and our usually most unhelpful response to it 17:05 Distraction and 21:45 the Superpower needed to overcome it ... :-)
We have to learn to accept life's finitude and be content to only do what truly matters to us ...
there's only enough time to do a few in a "life-time" ...
(maybe there's hack to do some concurrently? ... or simply its best sequential?)
need quiet reflective time to get clarity on that ....
for i see that clarity will also help in the solution of the 2nd point/problem ... distraction
17:05 was revelation that i was being a coward by turning to distractions
as a coping-mechanism to discomfort ...
i simply didn't hv the courage, the fortitude ... to confront the matter at hand ...
the solution seems obvious ... deal with there & then ...
the execution however is not ...
but I can now see that that path has to be taken cos that path leads to the destination ...
I need to take small steps towards overcoming whatever those are obstacles in taking that path ...
awesome insight oliver ...
the way forward is not just to address this particular matter at hand
but, in general to build up courage, grit, doing hard things longer ... as a character trait
i was a shy introvert ... lazy at times too ...
but now i can see that correlation between my modus operandi & ease of distraction as a coping-mechanism
I will start taking small steps in building up my courage in general ... grit
to be courageous, we simply have to start doing courageous things ... (like calling out queue jumpers ... in a nice way ;-) )
great conversation
Profound. And interesting
Imagine time as the railway station and you as the traveller perhaps. You are experiencing the space through moving your life thereby creating the time consciousness.
The more fundamental problem is a general lack of meaning in most of the things that we do these days. Self help, time management, etc. go out the window if I am Osama Bin Laden and know what needs to be done and what gives meaning to my life
The meaning of everything in capitalism is to generate profit. If you remove fhe profit motive from economy everyone will have more resources for greater and more passionate lives. Lol, too complicated for two google funkopops.
@channelpersonal6172 what the hell does "remove the profit motive" even mean? are we going to rewire everyone's heads to stop caring about whether they get more out of something than they put in?
Rob's voice is too loud.
From the age of 20 till the age of 80 that would be about 3000 weeks. Instead of young people feeling scared about dying at the age of 80 please know that many people question the meaning of living any longer as they approah their 60’s. I suggest that with the benefit of the title young people start to see their life in terms of weekly projects i.e. 4000 weekly projects. At least to me that wiuld sound like a life worth living. Start by lerarning how to breath better, sleep better, learn about fasting, start taking cold showers (nothing to be scared about), learn deep thinking, learn salsa, learn about your brain, learn leadership and so on. In the process you will be able to add another 2000 weeks or more to your joyful life.
Absolute waffle lol
Useless
So are your remaining weeks