Francesco Dimitri - Should you be more curious about how you manage your time?

The Future Talent Learning Podcast

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Episode Summary

Should we be more curious about how we’re managing our time?

Whether you’re planning the next five years of your career or the next eight hours of your working day, there are plenty of tools and techniques that can help us achieve our goals. But is the practice of time management all that it claims to be?

To discuss, Ross D and Nathalie Nahai are joined by author and speaker Francesco Dimitri. We discuss:

• Whether we can really ‘manage’ our time
• The pros and cons of time management tools
• The importance of ‘messing up’.

Episode Timestamps

• Introduction – 00:00-01:10
• Time management implies time is a resource to be optimized – 01:10- 06:58
• Time management has diminishing returns – 06:58-07:45
• Creativity requires a more holistic approach – 07:45-13:54
• Leave space for messiness – 13:54-28:06
• Ritual can distinguish mindsets – 28:06-31:46
• Wrap up – 31:46-32:37
• One thing I learned this week – 32:37-38:27

Additional Information

In ‘One Thing I’ve Learned This Week’, Nathalie discussed how Climate Works store carbon from the air. You can find out more at: https://www.climateworks.org/

Ross D discussed the eco-friendly web browser Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/

Francesco discussed the old tradition of carving turnips at Halloween, instead of pumpkins: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-people-carved-turnips-instead-of-pumpkins-for-halloween-180978922/

Find out more about Francesco at: https://www.francescodimitri.com/