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Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and author who writes about productivity, psychology, happiness, and the limits of self-optimization. He is best known for Four Thousand Weeks, The Antidote, and the Guardian column “This Column Will Change Your Life,” which helped establish him as a prominent skeptical voice in self-help.

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Oliver Burkeman was born in Liverpool in 1975 and grew up in a household where newspapers, especially The Guardian, carried real prestige. The impulse to publish appeared early: as a primary-school child he made one-page newsletters for classmates. He was educated at Huntington School in York and went on to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where editing the student paper Varsity gave him crucial preparation for journalism. ((https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/49394?utm_source=openai))

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You almost certainly can't consistently do the kind of work that demands serious mental focus for more than about three or four hours a day
-The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done
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Good writing is pointing out
-How to make writing less hard
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The problem, as the critic Nicholas Carr explained, isn't filter failure. It's filter success
-Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
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What matters, in the end, is what gets created, not whether the person doing the creating has an impeccable record of red Xs
-Dailyish
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Compost is the stuff that helps things grow
-What if you never sort your life out?
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Now I rarely doubt I’m spending my time on things that matter. Not because I’m a time-management ninja – I've no choice
-No spare time in lockdown? That's not such a bad thing
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Inspiration isn’t always there when you need it, but it usually follows after you get started on creative work
-Scheduling seems boring compared to inspiration, but it’s the best way to get creative work done
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There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating
-The eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life

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"I follow Oliver Burkeman's personal, literary, and journalistic adventures into wisdom with admiration and exhilaration"

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"What we don’t know—but what Oliver Burkeman is here to teach us—is that our control over that time is also limited"

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"Quietly subversive, beautifully written, persuasive, and profound, Oliver Burkeman's book will make you think—and smile"

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