10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-04-07 · 72 min · 13,348 words

How To Be Sanely Productive | Oliver Burkeman

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It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Everybody how we doing. I think the biggest lie I regularly tell myself

is that I will finally be satisfied. I'll finally be able to relax. When I get to the end of my to do list. But I never get to the end of my to do list. There's always more shit to do. My guest today is here to move me and you Out of a state.

Of miserable productivity to a state of sane productivity. His argument is that there is enormous liberation to be had in Admitting defeat. In conceding the obvious that we're never gonna get everything done. Only then, he says, can we truly

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