Oliver Burkeman

So it's the only resource you can never, ever get back.

And if you take the classic example, uh, the Oliver Burkeman "Four Thousand Weeks," bear with me, but convert that into 4,000 grams of gold and just imagine that you've got this chest of gold.

'Cause we can't really personify time.

It, it's, it's, it's part of the human condition to kind of [chuckles] ignore the fact that we're gonna die.

So we have to kind of approach that and be a little bit wary of when we're using it too much.

If you remember my conversation with Oliver Burkeman, we touched on this in a high level where people are constantly thinking of everything they can offload to AI, such that even the time they're getting back from AI becomes filled with more efficiency, where more tasks go to the AI.

They can't even relax anymore.

Oliver Burkeman and I went super in-depth on this topic in our episode.

The link is in the description below.

So how do you know if you're in type two or type three fun? There's three tests that we came up with, and it's choice, completion, and connection.

Camp called The Subtext, where we talk about pop culture through the lens of ethics and philosophy and faith.

And I was asked by Lee, "Please go through all of No Small Endeavor's episodes and tell me which one is your favorite." And after my search, I decided on Oliver Burkeman's episode, and it's called Time Management for Mortals.

Over the summer, I have read Oliver Burkeman's newest book, called Meditations for Mortals, and it has been amazing, and I cannot recommend his thought process and thinking and conscious living enough.

So coming right up is this episode with Oliver Burkeman, and after you get finished, you should come listen to The Subtext because we have a really good time.

[gentle music] I'm Lee C.

Camp.

And as Thomas Merton says somewhere, "I've often found myself trying to wring every last morsel of pleasure out of some wondrous moment to the detriment of the moment's wonder." I do remain grateful for many of the habits of productivity and focus I've learned, but a particularly pernicious temptation accompanies those methods and habits, namely seeking to quantify everything, give every minute some special meaning, or make every hour especially productive.

This turns out, quite counterintuitively perhaps, to be a self-defeating trap.

Yeah, absolutely.

So probably one of my favorite books of all time, um, and I always go back to it, is, uh, Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.

I hope I'm saying his last name right.

I think it's like 40,000 weeks.

When you know your practice, you have guideposts for all of life, and it forever changes you and the direction you choose.

Oliver Burkeman writes, "When you can no longer turn back, anxiety falls away because now there's only one direction to travel, forward into the consequences of your choice." And the consequences of your choice to live and embody your practice are beautiful.

The world needs you to live from this place of deep intentionality more than ever.

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