Note: This is a rebroadcast.When people think about living more fully and making better use of their time, they typically think of finding some new organizational system they can structure their lives with.Oliver Burkeman says that what you really need instead are perspective shifts — small, sustainable changes in how you view and approach your day-to-day life. He provides those mindset shifts in his new book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3Yn6I7T" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts</a>. And we talk about some of them today on the show, including why you should view life’s tasks and problems like a river instead of a bucket, stop feeling guilt over your “productivity debt,” make peace with your decisions by embracing an unconventional reading of the poem “The Road Not Taken,” aim to do your habits “dailyish,” be more welcoming of interruptions, and practice “scruffy hospitality.”Resources Related to the Podcast<ul><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/time-management-for-mortals/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oliver‘s previous appearance on the AoM podcast: Episode #748 — Time Management for Mortals</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/autofocus-the-productivity-system-that-treats-your-to-do-list-like-a-river/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AoM Article: Autofocus — The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-956-feeling-depressed-and-discombobulated-social-acceleration-may-be-to-blame/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AoM Podcast #956: Feeling Depressed and Discombobulated? Social Acceleration May Be to Blame</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/sunday-firesides-to-dos-the-rent-we-pay-for-living/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunday Firesides: To-Dos, the Rent We Pay For Living</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-962-the-case-for-minding-your-own-business/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AoM Podcast #962: The Case for Minding Your Own Business</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-821-routines-are-overrated/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AoM Podcast #821: Routines Are Overrated</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/habits/routines-not-working-for-you-try-a-daily-checklist/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AoM Article: Routines Not Working For You? Try a Daily Checklist</a></li><li><a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/sunday-firesides-life-is-for-living/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunday Firesides: Life Is for Living</a></li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3RNzD0b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa</a></li><li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost</a></li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4gQu5O3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong by David Orr</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-road-less-traveled/id1493453604?i=1000530730891" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“The Road Less Traveled” — great, short podcast on the alternate interpretation of Frost’s poem</a></li></ul>Connect With Oliver Burkeman<ul><li><a href="https://www.oliverburkeman.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oliver‘s website</a></li></ul>:00 Introduction0:23 Welcome & Book Overview1:45 Continuation of Four Thousand Weeks3:40 Why Productivity Makes Us Feel Dead Inside9:04 The Efficiency Trap11:09 Productivity Debt14:56 Treat Your Reading List Like a River18:58 Your To-Do List Is a Menu, Not a Bucket23:47 Accepting You'll Always Have Problems27:43 The Pressure to Solve the World's Problems34:05 Making Decisions & "The Road Not Taken"37:32 Daily-ish Habits, Interruptions & Scruffy HospitalitySee Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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