Oliver Burkeman: Why Productivity Is Ruining Lives (E314)

Before we get started, let me tell you, you can now listen to high performance ad free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Chasing dreams of super productivity is sort of chasing immortality. Getting on top of everything, especially in the modern world, is a is a mirage. If you're ever gonna make meaning and do cool stuff and build things and create and all the rest of it, it's gonna have to be right here in the middle of the chaos.

In that acceptance of how actually you're powerless in a certain way, powerless to just like completely change your personality, you get a lot more power because then you're free to just like act here and now. That's the voice of best-selling author and journalist Oliver Berkman who joins us today on high performance. I'm Jake Humphrey and I'm quite simply fascinated by the stories of the world's most high performing people. And I'm Damian Hughes.

I'm lucky enough to work with people to help them understand how they create environments that get the best out of themselves and others. This includes working with professional sports teams like the England football team and with a range of leading businesses. Now Oliver is the author of one of my favourite books, 4000 Weeks, as well as The Antidote and more recently his Meditations for Mortals. A book actually which I bought my wife Harriet for Christmas. Yeah, well, she really wants to read a bit more in the new year.

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