BITESIZE | How to Enjoy Your Life More (Without Getting Everything Done) | Oliver Burkeman #642
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 580 of the podcast with journalist and author the brilliant Oliver Berkman. Many of us feel under constant pressure to optimize every moment, to become more efficient, more productive and somehow more worthy. In this clip, Oliver shares why the belief that life will finally feel easier once we clear our to-do list is such a persistent illusion and why we don't need to wait for life to feel calm or under control before we start living with more intention.
In your new book, you talk about the kind of life that you would like to be living and you describe it as calm and focused, energetic and meaningfully productive and connected to others as opposed to anxious, isolated, and overwhelmed. I think that's the kind of life, Oliver, that many people would also like to lead. So my question is, why do so many people struggle to lead that kind of life? And secondly,
How are you getting on in your quest to doing so? Great questions. Yeah, I mean, I think there are so many reasons why it's hard to live that kind of life, right? Reasons to do with the society that we live in, reasons to do with the ways we were parented and the messages we give ourselves. I think the reason I really want to focus in on, and that relates to your second question, is there's a problem with seeing that as something that you're striving towards, something that's off in the future and that you're going to work really, really hard and then eventually that's going to be your life.
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