Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-01-25

Books mentioned on How To Design Your Life For Peak Creativity - Dan Koe - #894

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Dan Koe is a writer, entrepreneur, and creator. Finding your creative spark is one of life’s greatest journeys.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. Four Thousand Weeks

    Oliver Burkeman · at 40:58

    Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is a time management and self-help book that challenges conventional productivity advice by emphasizing the severe limitations of human lifespan and the necessity of making deliberate choices.

    Discussed
    “Oliver burkman's got this prompt from 4,000 weeks where he says decide in advance what you're going to suck at and um it's a really good one because if you focus all of your attention on one thing you make more progress in that thing than if you spent three times the amount of time on that thing”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Artist's Way
“Beyond something that was very structured you know like a six-minute journal five minute diary type thing um artist Pages or morning Pages by Julia Cameron or whatever was”