Interview – In his world’s bestseller 4000 weeksstar journalist Guardian Restores modern obsession with time optimization. Meeting with repentance products.
His book has sold more than one million copies. With 4000 weeks – The title initiates the life of an 80-year-old individual, Oliver Burkemen, the English author and the journalist (:The Guardian:) shows how much time management techniques, instead of lighting, motivates us to further load our days. We are always more effective, we are also more depressed and more stressed. “It is not organized to find a bend and stop this endless race, but no decision is made,” says Oliver Burkeman. “That is why.” He continues. “First you have to accept your own last.”
Madame Figaro. – The thesis of your book is clear. Time management techniques don’t work right away. They would even make us more pressured and worried. What caused you to this conclusion?
Olivier Burkeman. – There is nothing that wants to become more effective. But my book says that in a few words, it wants to manage your time in the sense of controlling it, is an illusion. The more you strive to bend it on your program, the more you avoid you. The more time we went out, the more we do, and what we need to do is infinite. I, in a period of my life, I became a real “productivity GEK”. I was always aware of the recent technique to respond to the e-mail address faster, the items ordered to succeed do lists With a lot of laptops, repository, complex codes and colored pens. I wanted to be this “reliable type” at all costs, which we can ask everything. It only made me make me always more stress and eventually make it unhappy. However, there is a much more relaxed and effective way to live, which does not require this control level.
What is how to go about the meaning or control of time?
Just by accepting it’s limited and that we will not be able to do everything. This requires a good look to face. The average life expectancy of an individual is very short. Those who reach the age of 80 will live only more than 4,000 weeks. How do you want to mention? If we really leave a trace in the long run, your passage on earth. What is really important to you? This issues is the only way to find mastery feeling, get out of FOMO (Fear of revealing, fear of missing, editor’s note) Whom do you want to spend your evenings? What do you want to focus your action? Who are you going to be disappointed? This master’s thread brings huge freedom …
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Is not permanently depressed.
I would even say “busy.” We have become performed in the world managed in the industrialism. However, the more “we saves” the more we fill it with new tasks. It is a vicious circle. If you are building the third way in a deadlock, always blocked highway, the result you reached is that it is borrowed to more new cars. The same goes for professional life. The more you have the reputation of being reactive, the more you write to you, or you will have more work. Technological innovation, the invention of the microwave or washing machine should have enlightened our days. Instead, waiting for three minutes that the heating dish seems inappropriate to us. He started in an endless race, it seems normal that it is the essence of capitalism that we must absolut more than we can do.
When your approach advises, on the contrary, recognized that it is impossible …
Absolutely, and this is not an overwhelming message without ambitions, on the contrary. You must be this as a basic permit to focus on what actually has to do for you and the rest of you. It “recognizes yourself” by Socrates. We always come back there … This approach invites us to use the times that we are doing. And stop doing what is bothering us, which is really not us or what doesn’t feel alive. These three items are very important. We don’t always get there, sometimes you really need to answer your email. (Laughs) But you can make sure that keeps the balance.
“Recognize yourself about Socrates, is an approach that invites us to use the time to do things that bloom us
Olivier Burkemen
How to face daily pressure, emergencies, e-mail To the Mails and Agenda.
Changing the prospect can help. Can you consider your days in the amount of time (how much time I give really important)? Rather than the number of tasks performed. Very often, we are delaying what we are most interested, we will respond to the applications or distractions, whatsapp messages … I suggest you do what needs a long time for us. And, only after that, resist emergencies. “” “Work first with you “It is said in English (“Work first to work in time”).
“It simply came to our notice then.
We are very informed that everything should go fast. We have become a drug addict. Even when we find the time to read, and when we were passionate readers, it is sometimes difficult to finish his head, because our cavalry is tirelessly in mind. We can no longer have our own or rest. Besides, we rest today as a condition for being more effective … Why should leave the ocean on the ocean? Why consider these moments in terms of investment return? This does not make sense, but the culture of rest, as an end in itself, has become almost a subversive. Therefore, the importance when we finally accept “nothing for” this time, we will not expect it to be nice at first. It may be necessary to gradually pass. Start five or ten minutes at first. Before the feeling of peace, peace, we have completed forgetting.
How to do it specifically?
I find your hobbies, your favorite hobbies, even if it’s very old, just because we like the experience they make us live without performance. Personally, I like to play the piano, even if I’m not very good. I dedicate it to it without any pressure.
I suggest starting the day that is important to us or who takes a long time. And only then to face emergencies
Olivier Burkemen
“We have become impatient,” write yourself. To find the meaning of time, we need to be patient with this “antidote” antidote.
The idea should not slow down (because movements assume) Slow food Or Slow life) but to control the speed. Being patient already has will to face the overall acceleration trend. Everything must be solved quickly at work today. Now, sometimes, accepting that some things take time to reflect and decide that we are going much faster. We learn to alleviate this little anxiety consisting of not having no immediate solution. We taste patience, perseverance, for the next step. And we are less wrong.
What have we learned from under arrest?
This strange period reminded us essential. The importance that I call “a modest significant life.” Gestures, as always, and every day you can get out of the house. This moment reminded us of the importance of link, the connection between the connection. When we were able to go out again, we chose where we really wanted to go to whom we really wanted to see again. As for the kind of “treatment” of our existence, where Marie Kondo will come to a wonderful warehouse …
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Source: Le Figaro
