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Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine

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Madeleine Dore
This week's guest has spent the last few years delving into the topic of limitations through researching and writing his latest book on time.Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist living in Brooklyn. He writes a popular weekly column for The Guardian on social psychology, productivity and the science of happiness, called This Column Will Change Your Life and is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.In this conversation, we delve into how he has moved through a rut from the book writing process, how goals can become redundant very quickly, the Kanban method, self-control and distraction, parenting, shadow working, insomnia, the difficulty of doing nothing and how we can get out of a rut by breaking our own rules. Extraordinary Findings:– The Summer Day by Mary Oliver– David Cain's newsletter Raptitude– Hofstadter's law– Debbie Millman's ten year plan exercise– Already Free by Bruce Tift – Braintoss app– Kanban method– Self Control app– The Moves That Matter by Jonathan Rowson– Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’ article by Oliver Burkeman – Notes from my previous conversation with Oliver Burkeman on not having a routine* * *Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or say thanks with a coffee!To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.Special thanks to: Nelson Dore for the theme music, Scott from Soundmind Editing for the mixing and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.