Chapter
The Curse of Busyness
41:48 - 49:11 (07:22)
The Productivity Guy, Merlin Mann, shares his experience with being the go-to person confessional box for people discussing their feelings of being overwhelmed by busyness and suggests asking how being busy serves you as a starting point to change one's life.
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This episode focuses on the dangers of holding on to busy-ness and confronting the idea that being busy is the same as being important.
41:48 - 46:04 (04:15)
Summary
This episode focuses on the dangers of holding on to busy-ness and confronting the idea that being busy is the same as being important. The speaker encourages listeners to reflect on how their own busyness is serving them, and if it's not, to make a change.
ChapterThe Curse of Busyness
Episode#373: Jerry Colonna — The Coach With the Spider Tattoo
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The productivity guy in the confessional box, Tim Ferriss discusses the common problem of feeling overwhelmed and how it is usually common to most people.
46:04 - 49:11 (03:06)
Summary
The productivity guy in the confessional box, Tim Ferriss discusses the common problem of feeling overwhelmed and how it is usually common to most people. He uses a personal example of having over 618,000 unread emails and 420 unread text messages, and how addressing them would be physically impossible, theorizing whether declaring bankruptcy of emails is a viable solution.