I listened to this podcast interview (Art of Manliness podcast) with Oliver Burkeman recently, and it was great. As someone who loves to make lots of long lists (e.g., todo lists, books to read, browser tabs to read), which is overwhelming, I really enjoyed the idea of shifting how I view my lists towards a river of things to explore and enjoy, instead of a bucket that you’ve got to try to empty as new stuff keeps getting added (give yourself more agency and less stress). I also really enjoyed the idea of “scruffy hospitality”, where you focus on enjoying time with people without the pressure of providing a perfect experience for their visit.
I listened to the Blinkist summary of his new book Meditations for Mortals, and I’m excited to listen to the audiobook sometime soon.
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I really liked Four Thousand Weeks. Here’s what I got out of it:
We have more ways to use our time than we could ever fit into the time we have available, which is a problem because…
We hate to choose , so we try to get more efficient to fit everything in
A big impediment to accepting reality (the first 2 points above), is that we have a fantasy that we shouldn’t have to deal with the messiness of other people, their problems, their demands on us, their inscrutable neediness. It takes us to places of challenging emotions in other people and in ourselves. The fantasy is that the messiness slows us down, and often prevents us from doing what we want.
Thanks for sharing your reading – it was helpful to reflect on what I took away from the book.
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Interesting!Sent from my iPad