Productivity Expert On How Productivity Ruins Your Life - Oliver Burkeman 

One of those podcast episodes where you're having a rough, sloppy day and then this pops up and you listen to it while doing the dishes and cooking, and everything starts shining in a new light. Thank you, Ali and Oliver. I'm only halfway through and it already feels very therapeutic 😌💚

"Life is difficult. This is one of the great truths. Because when you fully internalise the truth that life is difficult, then it no longer matters that life is difficult." Gem!

I was glad to hear someone else struggles to reply to friends. I have to write it on my to do list and it still gets put off but I think that part of that is to do with how I value socialising in person much more. I feel guilty that messaging people feels like a chore.

I'm loving the imagery here. Essentially he's turned the productivity mindset on its head. So you don't wake up into your day & be specific about what you're going to get done - you wake up into the 'rubble' of the day ahead - & decide what 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 going to get done that day. Don't designate - relegate.

"Life is difficult when you internalize the truth when you have a difficult problem to solve it seems less difficult because by default it is going difficult" That's one of the best takeaway from the Podcast 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I finished Four Thousand Weeks on Audible this week and it was fantastic. I learned so much from it, and it was refreshing to hear a philosophical approach to time a management. It wasn’t a series of life hacks to save precious seconds but a new perspective on how to LOOK at time. I highly recommend it!

"there's something of the destination in every moment of the journey".... Best take on this question I've heard!

The idea of accepting that your gonna miss out and be okay with that is so freeing. Thank you this was a great episode enjoyed it as usual ♥️♥️.

This is the most life changing, freeing, unblocking thing I have ever watched!

Enjoyed seeing Ali’s therapy session with Oliver.

*"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."* --Paul J. Meyer

I loved his book The Antidote! So great to have him on your podcast!

Bloody A+, dude. Definitely will come back to this episode when I notice a sense of chaos and lack of direction in my life again.

I loved 4000 weeks. A fantastic interview! One I will listen to again. Thank you both! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

amazing interview, I enjoyed it very much!!

Thank you Oliver, Ali, Angus, Elizabeth and people not on camera here in general! Raza :)

I love this stance on productivity. I always feel there is more I could be doing. I suppose advice on productivity can also be very individual. I need to learn to take more breaks rather than do more productive things in the day. Thanks Ali, your interview style is great, the conversation flows and your interest in the content shows.

So much wisdom!!! The ideas that were discussed made me question and reshape my whole mental modal. Thank you guys so much, I really needed this.

This is really good! Interesting things I had not thought about.

Thank you

That's actually deep for 2 hrs!

Thank you for this awesome episode, Ali! I've just bought his book and waiting for delivery now.

It was quite jarring hearing that Ali doesn't use the things he makes videos about for any more time after he's done making the video about how he uses it in so much detail

i second bird by bird, was req’d reading for a writing class~great book :)

“Anything’s possible in the hypothetical future” Ah yes, welcome to where I live all day. Need to root myself in the present instead

Thank you for the useful conversation bro Ali 👍

I enjoy this conversation massively! Amazing :) More realism, less delusion.

Also, fingers crossed for payday times and the hopeful watching of season 0 for the deep dive on the nebulae system! Raza :)

Nice Ali. Your content is... I can't even say! it's amazing :3

woohoo first interview after lazik! a new profile pic is needed now! congrats!

Random thought! If there is some technology you are not using such as the reMarkable perhaps you should make give aways. I wouldn't mind having a reMarkable tablet.

Ali, can u do a Podacst with DR. Peterson too? It might be great

What would be your reaction if you have Tim Ferris on your Podcast?

At 51mins, basically ; If a things worth doing, it's worth half arseing it (Or you won't do it at all )

Yoo! This is the first time I commented 1st on a video

Great video

Why is there a huge gap between acpecting being productive and actually being productive 😢 At least in my case 🤠

I’m so early

53:44 Vitesse ×3. Ouahou.

to many ads

32:18 …. forms of ‘emotional avoidance’ 🤦🏻‍♀️nail on the head damn!

Wassup

It is so annoying that Oliver constantly sort of changes subject or answers Ali with a completely unrelated example

I fell asleep in this interview 😴Additionally, buy new chairs for guests as they are not comfortable and you too

I normally love Ali’s work and perpective on things. But this podcast as a whole is unfortunately terrible. Ali does not know how to truly listen, he is always thinking about what to say next etc. I don’t like Joe Rogen as a person but he is the true master of this.

Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.

The usefulness of this title seems to stop at the book. The conversation borders on the trivial or the speculative. Trivial because everyone knows he is going to die. Speculative because the grander claims are very loosely supported, proceed from non-sequiturs, and are often based on strawmen (claiming time management authors try to take control of time itself). Seems like a half-baked stoicism.