Chris Guillebeau
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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The Daily Stoic · BONUS | Not Everything Has To Be Productive (with Chris Guillebeau) · 12 Jun 2026
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Yeah.
And I have been trying to lean into that myself, and I hope that other people will as well.
That was the attraction, right?
No, I took an Uber back and then the whole way.
That's what's funny.
I was like, this is fun.
But I'm passing all the way, all the places that I walked, you know, and I was like, oh, that's just fun.
Yeah, and this is two years ago, and I still remember this weird memory, and it wasn't that hard of a choice to make.
And it's not like I was like, every Wednesday from now on, I'm going to walk 17 miles.
I don't have to do that.
I can just be like, what are things like that that I can respond to and say yes to?
The food was really good.
It was really delicious.
Cornbread.
There's a cornbread appetizer that's usually shared among people, and I ate the whole thing myself.
I walk out of movie theaters. If I don't like the movie, I'll leave. I'll sit down at restaurants, and if I don't like the menu, I'll get up and go somewhere else. It doesn't matter if I've already sat down. And I think it might feel a little bit strange to some people at first, but it's going to also bring you relief, and you're going to feel proud of yourself.
When I came up with the concept for this book, Mike, I think it's, you know, I've been writing books for 15 years. I don't think I've had anything that is as universally resonant. You know, if I would talk to people and they're like, what are you working on? You know, time anxiety, pretty much every person was like, I have that or I identify with that or whatever.
They would immediately start describing what it looks like to them. So I think it's very common. I think it's in the culture. I think there are two types of it. One type is what I call existential, where it's kind of like time is running out. There's not enough time in my life. And the other kind is that day to day. What should I do next? There's not enough time to do everything.
I can't make decisions. I'm just struggling because there's so much to do. So you said, like, are you wrong? I think, well, I think you might have some cognitive distortions that affect your working process, but I don't think you're unusual to feel like, wow, there's this time pressure that I feel all the time. And what is the best remedy for that?
People look at all sorts of productivity advice, and I think that's kind of counterproductive to actually dealing with the real problem.
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