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Time Management

via BBC Maestro

Overview

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

Syllabus

  • Time Management Introduction
  • Facing up to finitude
  • The limit-embracing life and the historical perspective
  • The efficiency trap and how to escape it
  • This is it, this is now
  • Too many rocks
  • Becoming a better procrastinator
  • An inconvenient life
  • The art of making decisions and the joy of missing out
  • Rivers vs buckets: The menu principle
  • The truth about distraction
  • The awkwardness principle
  • You never really have time
  • Patience is a superpower
  • Putting planning in its place
  • Becoming news resilient living amid uncertainty
  • Timewasting for beginners: Hobbies and the radicalism of rest
  • Synchrony and time with others
  • Cosmic insignificance therapy
  • Everyone is winging it
  • How to choose what matters
  • Conclusion: Starting from sanity

Taught by

Oliver Burkeman

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