Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2022-03-14
Steven Bartlett & Oliver Burkeman: books mentioned on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
How To Finally Stop Procrastinating: Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman is the author of Four Thousand Weeks, a book that offers the most interesting perspective on how to manage your time that I’ve ever heard. He was a columnist for the Guardian newspaper for twenty years.
Steven Bartlett recommended Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and Oliver Burkeman's 2-Book Set (Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals & the Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking) by Oliver Burkeman, and discussed The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman and The Happiness Planner (June-July) by Mo Seetubtim. Oliver Burkeman recommended Deep Work by Cal Newport and Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Antidote
Discussed“you said you know one of the books you wrote was called the antidote happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking”
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The Happiness Planner (June-July)
Discussed“i sat here with moe gowda who wrote a book about happiness um the happiness equation”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Recommended“and in your new book you talk a lot about kind of stripping back a lot of this [ __ ] that has consumed our lives and the complexity and these narratives which have been kind of sold by the happiness and efficiency and procrastination industry let's call it um your new book 4000 weeks time and how to use”
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Deep Work
Recommended“cal newport who wrote the book deep work and digital minimalism who's very good on this has this argument that like what people call writer's block that's just the feeling of writing right”
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Digital Minimalism
Recommended“cal newport who wrote the book deep work and digital minimalism who's very good on this has this argument that like what people call writer's block that's just the feeling of writing right”
Where to get it
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Oliver Burkeman's 2-Book Set (Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals & the Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking)
Recommended“so i implore them to do so because also the way that you write is from such a nuanced human perspective which is um avoiding the like cheap answers or the binary um answers to some of the big questions about life productivity efficiency and everything that plagues us in the modern world so thank you for writing such a”
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