Oliver Burkeman
Time Management
Change your perspective and make every moment count, with the bestselling author behind Four Thousand Weeks.
This course includes:
What you'll learn
Join Oliver as he shares practical tools that will help you make the most of each day. At the end of the course, you’ll see time completely differently.
- Become a better procrastinator
- Adopt practical productivity techniques
- Embrace imperfection
- Develop a new mindset
- Face up to the finite time we have
- Banish imposter syndrome
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Oliver Burkeman understands the dreaded deadline, over-planning, procrastination and imposter syndrome. He’s lived it all and more in 20+ years as an award-winning writer.
Now, as the author of books on managing time, including The New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver’s work is focused on helping you use ‘the power of limits’ to better use the time you have.
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Course trailer
Lesson plan (22)
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01
Time Management Introduction
05:40
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02
Facing up to finitude
14:01
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03
The limit-embracing life and the historical perspective
21:13
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04
The efficiency trap and how to escape it
24:37
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05
This is it, this is now
12:38
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06
Too many rocks
06:44
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07
Becoming a better procrastinator
16:24
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08
An inconvenient life
10:57
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09
The art of making decisions and the joy of missing out
11:22
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10
Rivers vs buckets: The menu principle
10:38
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11
The truth about distraction
26:45
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12
The awkwardness principle
09:37
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13
You never really have time
15:45
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14
Patience is a superpower
25:47
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15
Putting planning in its place
11:55
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16
Becoming news resilient living amid uncertainty
15:56
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17
Timewasting for beginners: Hobbies and the radicalism of rest
16:34
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18
Synchrony and time with others
13:31
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19
Cosmic insignificance therapy
09:24
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20
Everyone is winging it
07:21
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21
How to choose what matters
15:58
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22
Conclusion: Starting from sanity
07:45
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