Send us a text This is a distilled version of last year's conversation with the writer Oliver Burkeman. In it, you'll hear Oliver talk about our troubled relationship with time and how to more fully inhabit it. Oliver believes our obsession with productivity and efficiency is no route to happiness, quite the opposite. In order to inhabit time more fully, we ... Show More
Oct 8
OLIVER BURKEMAN: Trading Control for Peace
What if the key to a meaningful life isn’t doing more—but doing less, with intention? In this powerful conversation, Michael and Megan talk with Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, about the myths of productivity, the illusion of control, a ... Show More
1h 3m
Sep 23
How to Stop Overthinking & Start Living a More Meaningful Life with Oliver Burkeman #580
Many of us feel under constant pressure to optimise every moment, to become more efficient, more productive and somehow more worthy. But what if embracing our limits could be the key to living a calmer, more meaningful life? This week’s returning guest on my Feel Better, Live Mor ... Show More
2 h
Mar 2025
384. The Logical Case for Positive Thinking with Oliver Burkeman
<p>Do you constantly feel like you need to control <em>everything</em> in your life? Like if you could just be more organized, more productive, more <em>perfect</em>, then you’d finally feel at peace? What if the real secret to feeling more fulfilled was actually letting go of th ... Show More
37m 14s