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Time Management

Oliver Burkeman

Time Management

Change your perspective and make every moment count, with the bestselling author behind Four Thousand Weeks.

This course includes:

5 hours

22 lessons

20 exercises

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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Lesson plan (22)

  1. 01

    Time Management Introduction

    05:40

  2. 02

    Facing up to finitude

    14:01

  3. 03

    The limit-embracing life and the historical perspective

    21:13

  4. 04

    The efficiency trap and how to escape it

    24:37

  5. 05

    This is it, this is now

    12:38

  6. 06

    Too many rocks

    06:44

  7. 07

    Becoming a better procrastinator

    16:24

  8. 08

    An inconvenient life

    10:57

  9. 09

    The art of making decisions and the joy of missing out

    11:22

  10. 10

    Rivers vs buckets: The menu principle

    10:38

  11. 11

    The truth about distraction

    26:45

  12. 12

    The awkwardness principle

    09:37

  13. 13

    You never really have time

    15:45

  14. 14

    Patience is a superpower

    25:47

  15. 15

    Putting planning in its place

    11:55

  16. 16

    Becoming news resilient living amid uncertainty

    15:56

  17. 17

    Timewasting for beginners: Hobbies and the radicalism of rest

    16:34

  18. 18

    Synchrony and time with others

    13:31

  19. 19

    Cosmic insignificance therapy

    09:24

  20. 20

    Everyone is winging it

    07:21

  21. 21

    How to choose what matters

    15:58

  22. 22

    Conclusion: Starting from sanity

    07:45

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