THEtime is never enough. Overflowing email boxes, piles of clothes to be ironed, vacations to book: everyone lives with the specter of all unfinished business. And he finds himself a compiling lists and making plans to optimize time. But we end up forgetting the crux of the question: how spend your days in the best possible way?
Time: a book to learn how to manage it
Time management is at the center of everyone’s thoughts. You try to devise tricks to use it to the fullest. But we are sure that maximize our productivitybuilding the perfect daily routine, fitting all the appointments is the road that leads to living a full and meaningful existence? Oliver Burkemancolumnist of the Guardian and bestselling writer, he is the author of “How can you have more time?” (Vallardi). In the manual he promises to free people from the obsession of “having to do everything”. A practical yet profound invitation to embrace one’s limits and to let go of the illusion of total controlrecognizing the hidden joy and importance in every small choice made.
The illusion of being able to do everything
Burkeman, after trying in every way to increase your efficiency to save time, ended up colliding with an inescapable truth: if time resembles an unstoppable conveyor belt, becoming more productive means increasing the speed of the belt, increasing discouragement in the face of ever new to-do lists. He then came to an awareness: the problem does not lie in the finitude of time, but in theobsession with having everything under control, in the illusion that it is possible to do everything and even more in a finite time, indefinitely postponing the moment in which we will be able to enjoy life.
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Learn to procrastinate
“The problem is not that our time is limited, but that we have unknowingly inherited a number of problematic ideas on how to make the most of itaccording to which we feel compelled to act and that they will do nothing but worsen the situation“. Faced with this condition, «The good procrastinator accept the fact that you cannot do everythingthen decides as sensibly as possible on what to focus on and what to overlook. The bad procrastinator, on the other hand, finds himself paralyzed precisely because he cannot bear the thought of facing his limitations. The limitations we try to avoid with this self-injurious behavior often have nothing to do with what we will be able to do in the time available; they are usually related to concerns about our talent, about the response of other people or about the fact that things will not go as intended », continues the author.
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