What if the secret to accomplishing more wasn’t about optimizing your to-do list, but about embracing the fact you’ll never finish it?

Oliver Burkeman suggests that accepting our limitations might be the most productive approach of all.

Oliver is a British journalist and author known for his refreshingly counterintuitive take on productivity and happiness. After spending over a decade writing the “This Column Will Change Your Life” series for The Guardian, he’s become one of the most thought-provoking voices challenging our modern obsession with productivity.

His bestselling book “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” revolutionized how we think about our finite time on earth, and his latest work, “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” whose Spanish translation has just come out, offers practical wisdom for embracing our limitations rather than fighting against them.

Show notes

The show notes for this program are available at https://kenso.es/episodio/367-oliver-burkeman-finitud-libertad

Explore this episode:

• (01:40) Childhood, technology and first ideas about time
• (04:48) Anxiety, productivity and discovering limits
• (08:29) The task list as a menu, not a burden
• (12:49) Information overload and the impossibility of doing everything
• (18:33) Imperfect decision-making: how to choose and accept lack of control
• (21:27) Quantity vs. quality and overcoming perfectionism
• (32:25) 3/3/3 Method: philosophy and practice
• (36:56) Attention limits and making the most of true productive hours
• (40:23) Imperfection, optimization and making peace with limits
• (45:26) KENSO questionnaire
• (52:24) Farewells and summary

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