Working with Time Instead of Against It - How to enjoy this year and every year of your life
Time isn’t the problem. The story told about time is. Some ideas from Oliver Burkman's book 400 weeks
You have roughly 4,000 weeks. Somehow, nobody mentioned this at school.
This episode takes a cheerful scalpel to modern time-panic—the kind that convinces smart adults that the next app, habit, or color-coded calendar will finally subdue existence. (It won’t.) Time, inconveniently, keeps doing what it has always done: passing. The good news is that this makes it remarkably reliable, like a train that never apologizes. You’ll explore why becoming “more efficient” can make you feel more chased, how birthdays can reveal your true time-philosophy, and why sitting quietly for ten minutes can be the most practical thing you do all week. The aim isn’t to win against time. It’s to stop declaring war on the only place life can happen.
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Treat calm as a skill, not a personality trait.
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Build plans that assume “the deck” never clears.
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Use meditation as a weekly perspective tune-up.
Press play, then reclaim one hour you were about to surrender.
Learn about the evolving story of the human species and our ideas told in chronological order.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction: Time as a Medium
01:52 The Relationship with Time
03:28 The Efficiency Trap (4,000 Weeks)
05:15 The Birthday Test: Are You Friends with Time?
07:22 The Privilege of Contentment
08:29 Lessons from a Silent Retreat
10:05 Meditation as Time Training
11:58 Working With Time, Not Against It
13:17 Conclusion: You Are the Pilot
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