Show Notes
This is our Next GenCast Christmas Special!
We've done something different for this one: instead of hearing from a leader, this episode is with the utterly brilliant best-selling author and journalist, Oliver Burkeman. His latest book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals", was easily my best read of 2022, and might give you lots to think about over the Xmas period.
The average person has about 4000 weeks on planet earth, which doesn't sound like much does it? But I promise this isn’t a pessimistic episode about how short life is, or full of cliches about living in the moment- in his book, Oliver Burkeman shares an amazing philosophy to overcome overwhelm when it comes to choosing how to spend the rest of your four thousand weeks.
*Highlights: The premise of the book (5 mins) Prioritising (14.5 mins) FOMO (19 mins) Work-life balance (25 mins) Making 'enlarging and diminishing' choices (33 mins) Imposter syndrome (36 mins) Inbox Zero (39 mins) Pay yourself first (46 mins) Procrastinating (47.5 mins)
*Resources: Oliver's latest book- Four Thousand Weeks The Antidote (another brilliant book by him) His viral article on "Winging it" mentioned around 36 mins in Another great podcast episode he recorded with Stephen Bartlett His website and newsletter
*Social media: @oliverburkeman @NextGGP/ @nishmanek
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