From the course: Oliver Burkeman on Time Management
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Synchrony and time with others
From the course: Oliver Burkeman on Time Management
Synchrony and time with others
(clock ticking) - This whole topic of time management, of using your time well, can very easily, I think, end up seeming like a very individual pursuit. It's all about you thinking inside your head how you're gonna use the time in your day. In fact, of course, we live with other people, in our homes, in our workplaces, in our communities, and I think it's really, really important and also fascinating to look at how time and time management actually works in that real setting of coordinating with and synchronizing with other people. We seem to have this idea that the ideal state would be total control over our individual time, like it's as if the fantasy that we're pursuing when we get really into ideas of time management and productivity is that we are the individual sovereigns of how each of our hours unfold. We get to choose exactly what we want to do. And yet you see that when people get the opportunity to…
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