How To Properly Manage Your Time - Oliver Burkeman - #365

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Oliver Burkeman. He's a journalist and an author, and we are talking about how to properly manage your time. Time is something we all wish we had more of, and tons of productivity gurus have proposed strategies to stop it from slipping through our fingers. After years of investigating and reporting on cutting edge productivity for The Guardian, Oliver has arrived at a slightly different world view of time and how we should manage it. Today, expect to learn why becoming more efficient often just leads to you getting more useless work done, the fundamental problems which all time management strategies fail to address, how deciding what you're going to fail at is a superpower, the danger of seeing your leisure time as an arena for self-improvement and much more. As you might be able to hear, I am still on the recovery road back from laryngitis, which caused me to completely lose the ability to make sounds out of my face. Hopefully, I've got an episode this Thursday actually, that I recorded during the midst of it because I had to get it done. You can look forward to that sultry seductive affair. But that being said, I'm glad that I got it when I did because over the next few months, I've got episodes coming up with Aubrey Marcus, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Joe Navarro, Dan Jones, General Stanley McChrystal, John McWhorter and Andrew Huberman. Lots and lots to look forward to. If you want to know when these episodes go live, you need to be subscribed. It's the only way that you can ensure that you will never miss an episode. So just head to your podcast app and press subscribe. It is the best way to support this show and it makes me very happy. So I thank you. In other news, this episode is brought to you by brand new sponsor Tiege Hanley. They make the process of starting and maintaining a skincare routine completely uncomplicated. They only use the highest quality ingredients and formulate their products so they work seamlessly together. They include an instruction card in every box that tells you what to use, when to use it and how much you should need. It's a two times per week exfoliating scrub, a daily face wash, an AM moisturizer with SPF and a PM moisturizer to help your skin stay hydrated and healthy throughout the night. If you're a guy, moisturizing and taking care of your skin, it's like, it's low down on the list, usually, right? It's like next to exfoliating your feet or something. It doesn't really, it's not a priority for many men, but as you're getting a little bit older, you don't want to look like a leathery old handbag. It is good to have a skincare routine and Tiege Hanley has taken all the guesswork out of it. Plus, they only use the highest quality ingredients to make sure that you look and feel amazing every day. Let's face it, you don't know what you're supposed to do with your face as a bloke and this is the solution for it. Head to tiege.com/modernwisdom. That's tiege.com/modernwisdom and you will be able to select a free gift with your first box. The boxes start from as little as $25 and shipping is available worldwide. tiege.com/modernwisdom. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens, the best all-in-one superfood powder that I've ever found. One scoop of Athletic Greens contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food sourced ingredients, including a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral, pre and probiotic green superfood blend and more that all work together to fill the nutritional gaps in your diet. It increases energy and focus, aids with digestion and supports a healthy immune system, all without the need to take multiple products or pills. It's NSF certified for sports in the US, meaning that even Olympians can use it. And it's just the easiest way to cover your nutritional bases. You're probably not getting enough fruit and veg into your diet, and this is going to help. It's lifestyle friendly, whether you eat keto, paleo, vegan, dairy-free or gluten-free, and it contains less than one gram of sugar. You can get a year's free supply of vitamin D, five free travel packs, free pots, shakers and more with your first purchase. If you head to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom.
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