Why Self-Improvement Is Holding You Back | Oliver Burkeman

Hurt. Have you ever found yourself waiting to start something until you felt completely perfect and ready? Like is it like one hundred percent perfectly ready before you got going? I'm pretty sure we'd still be waiting to start this podcast if that was the case, right? No No, I I can't actually think of a time when I felt a hundred percent ready to do something.

Right, close, close, but maybe not a hundred percent. I think There's something behind this question though, Tim. So so what is it? Well, of course, right? It it it might have to do with what we are going to be exploring in this episode. This idea of certainty. Let's hear about how our guest in this episode frames the problem. There isn't this moment of closure when you uh can say like okay, it's done and now we just get to relax. For the rest of

of life, if anything, getting up. on in through life and getting older tends to be associated with with more problems rather than rather than fewer. Um So I think it's really great to get free of that kind of tormenting illusion, that mirage because it's the kind of thing that actually keeps us from fully plunging into life now and and enjoying life as much as we might now.

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