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Four Thousand Weeks
Frequently, the effect of convenience isn’t just that a given activity starts to feel less valuable, but that we stop engaging in certain valuable activities altogether, in favour of more convenient ones. Because you can stay home, order food online, and watch sitcoms on Netflix, you find yourself doing so – though you might be perfectly well aware
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The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than
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Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. But it’s a lie. You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results. Keesmaat chose building fires and growing food with her children.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
life accelerates, and everyone grows more impatient. It’s somehow vastly more aggravating to wait two minutes for the microwave than two hours for the oven – or ten seconds for a slow-loading web page versus three days to receive the same information by post.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Paco Cantero PAPERLESS MOVEMENT®
Why if we do things faster, we become more impatient?
what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Paco Cantero PAPERLESS MOVEMENT®
Use this in the Capturing Beast. The more I think about the Capturing Beast, the more I think the name is incorrect. It's not a Capturing Model. It's an attention model. It tells us the things we should pay attention to, and that is how we should structure our life, based on Time Management.As our life is time-limited, we need to decide what we pay attention to. The Capturing Beast helps us on that, as it givrs the best structure possible to our lives, based on what we should pay attention to, the things we should dedicate the time to.THIS CONCLUSION IS GREAT!!!It kills many birds with just one stone:- It gives a structure to better understand our life, so we create boundaries to understand it, to know the things we should pay attention to.- It tells us what to capture, removing the noise and always creating signal.- It brings us joy, as we know we're dedicating our time to the things we matter the most. We forget about FOMO because we understand we cannot dedicate today attentuon to everything , as it's literally impossible. The good news? We ensure you are dedicating the time to the things you care the most. You're making the best out of your time.- The moment you know what you care the most, you start making the time for that. That gives meaning to every action you do, especially when you see the outcomes, the results. Example: our book. We decided it was a project. We made the time. We are happy with the end result. We know we made the best use possible about our time.
Principle number one is to pay yourself first when it comes to time.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
The same goes for existential overwhelm: what’s required is the will to resist the urge to consume more and more experiences, since that strategy can only lead to the feeling of having even more experiences left to consume.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
‘we don’t have to consciously participate in what it’s like to feel claustrophobic, imprisoned, powerless, and constrained by reality’