From the course: Oliver Burkeman on Time Management
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Becoming a better procrastinator
From the course: Oliver Burkeman on Time Management
Becoming a better procrastinator
(clock ticks) - So it's time to talk about procrastination. In many ways, it's the big one, right? It's something that anyone with a concern for using their time well, doing meaningful things with their time, runs up against eventually. The sense that there are really important projects that you don't quite ever get around to doing or that you put off. And if only you could overcome the forces in you that lead you to procrastinate, you could build the life that you want and do the things that you want to get done. I think we need to reconsider procrastination quite significantly if we're really gonna take account of the fact that we are finite human beings with an average 4,000 weeks of life and limited control of what we do with that time. Because if it's true, as I think it is that we can only do a very small proportion of all the things that matter, that we could conceivably do with our time, then, actually…
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