{"id":68160,"date":"2022-05-31T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=68160"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:02:50","slug":"time-management-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/time-management-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Time Management Myth, Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you feel in control of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-do-you-spend-your-time\/\">how you spend your time<\/a>? Do you believe it&#8217;s possible to have full control over your time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time management is an important skill to have, but it&#8217;s also important to temper your expectations about it. Contrary to self-help gurus and time management experts, you&#8217;re not really in control of your time. In his book <em>Four Thousand Weeks<\/em>, Oliver Burkeman debunks the biggest time management myth you&#8217;ve been led to believe\u2014that you can have full control over how you spend your time provided you have the right tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s cover the two reasons why you believe you can gain total control over your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-the-industrial-revolution-transformed-time-into-a-resource-to-exploit\"><strong>#1: The Industrial Revolution Transformed Time Into a Resource to Exploit<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-caused-the-industrial-revolution\/\">Industrial Revolution<\/a> in the 18th and 19th centuries fundamentally altered the way humans regarded time by <strong>transforming it into a resource that laborers were expected to use efficiently to maximize profits<\/strong>, asserts Burkeman. Business owners, wanting to derive the greatest amount of labor from their workforce, emphasized the importance of efficiency, hitting targets, and increasing future profits, portraying slowness and idleness as shameful. Today, this attitude manifests as the delusion that we can \u201cuse our time well\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-more-is-less\/\">maximizing<\/a> efficiency and getting as much done as possible in a given time frame.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Burkeman outlines one arguably negative effect of the Industrial Revolution on contemporary society. Other harmful aspects of the Industrial Revolution\u2019s legacy live on today, too: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/industrial-revolution-negative-effects\">Gender-based wage discrimination can be traced in large part to the <\/a>Industrial Revolution, for example. Factory owners paid women only half of men\u2019s salaries because women weren\u2019t considered the primary breadwinners of their families and therefore didn\u2019t need as much income. Further, the Industrial Revolution established a pattern of sacrificing the health of the environment\u2014and the people living in it\u2014for monetary gain.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Industrial Revolution also changed the way humans view <em>free <\/em>time, adds Burkeman. Factory owners considered the free time they gave laborers as simply a way to improve laborers\u2019 performance in factories during working hours. Therefore, free time became purpose-driven, rather than enjoyment-driven.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Burkeman asserts that we feel even our free time should be spent in service of a productive pursuit. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/your-money-or-your-life\"><em>Your Money or Your Life<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Vicki Robin and Joel Dominguez describe an even less leisure-oriented relationship to free time: <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/your-money-or-your-life\/step-7#the-legacy-of-the-industrial-revolution-and-the-great-depression#\">We actively <em>value <\/em>free time less than working time<\/a>. They explain that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/great-depression-and-the-new-deal\/\">Great Depression<\/a> created mass joblessness, which made people value the ability to work over the ability to rest. This attitude has never fully gone away\u2014many of us see paid work as the best way we could possibly spend our time.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-time-saving-technology-makes-you-believe-everything-should-be-faster\"><strong>#2: Time-Saving Technology Makes You Believe Everything Should Be Faster<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Time-saving technology contributes to the biggest time management myth you&#8217;ve been led to believe: that you <em>should <\/em>be able to fully master <em>all <\/em>your time, believes Burkeman. When you save time using technology, you automatically develop the expectation that you should be able to save and wield greater control over your time in other realms of your life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, your new robotic vacuum cleaner saves you twenty minutes of manual labor by detecting when there\u2019s dirt and starting automatically. Now that your expectation of control over your time has been elevated, you might feel that you should be able to cut down your commute time, as well, or that your dishwasher should detect when it\u2019s full and start itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Burkeman describes how time-saving technology elevates your expectation of how fast other things should move in your life. This experience of becoming accustomed to greater speed is a facet of the psychological phenomenon called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-hedonic-adaptation\/\">hedonic adaptation<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/hedonic-adaptation-4156926\">the process of acclimating to changed circumstances so that your general level of happiness returns to its base level<\/a>. When this occurs, you don\u2019t value the new circumstances as much as you did initially. For example, if you eat a doughnut every morning, you\u2019ll soon adjust to the pleasure of a daily doughnut and will need <em>two <\/em>doughnuts to get the same amount of joy you got initially.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel in control of how you spend your time? Do you believe it&#8217;s possible to have full control over your time? Time management is an important skill to have, but it&#8217;s also important to temper your expectations about it. Contrary to self-help gurus and time management experts, you&#8217;re not really in control of your time. In his book Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman debunks the biggest time management myth you&#8217;ve been led to believe\u2014that you can have full control over how you spend your time provided you have the right tools. 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