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Podcast: Routines & Ruts
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Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:55:59
Publish Date: 2020-02-23 07:15:08
Description:

This week's guest has spent the last few years delving into the topic of limitations through researching and writing his latest book on time.

Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist living in Brooklyn. He writes a popular weekly column for The Guardian on social psychology, productivity and the science of happiness, called This Column Will Change Your Life and is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.

In this conversation, we delve into how he has moved through a rut from the book writing process, how goals can become redundant very quickly, the Kanban method, self-control and distraction, parenting, shadow working, insomnia, the difficulty of doing nothing and how we can get out of a rut by breaking our own rules. 

Extraordinary Findings:
– The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
– David Cain's newsletter Raptitude
– Hofstadter's law
– Debbie Millman's ten year plan exercise
– Already Free by Bruce Tift 
– Braintoss app
– Kanban method
– Self Control app
– The Moves That Matter by Jonathan Rowson
– Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’ article by Oliver Burkeman 
– Notes from my previous conversation with Oliver Burkeman on not having a routine

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Special thanks to: Nelson Dore for the theme music, Scott from Soundmind Editing for the mixing and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.
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