{"podcast":{"title":"How I Work","slug":"how-i-work-960132","podcast_index_feed_id":960132,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/239-how-i-work-31072293/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/image.jpg?t=1759741460&size=Large","author":"Amantha Imber","episode_count":748,"summary":"You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without losing your mind, and optimising both work and wellbeing. No motivational fluff. Just battle‑tested tactics from people who’ve cracked the code.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T04:20:32.982842+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132"},"episode":{"title":"Are you an insecure overachiever? Oliver Burkeman on why success never feels like enough","slug":"are-you-an-insecure-overachiever-oliver-burkeman-on-why-success-never-feels-like-enough","published_at":"2026-08-05T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/are-you-an-insecure-overachiever-oliver-burkeman-on-why-success-never-feels-like-enough","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/how-i-work/hiw-oliver-burkeman-2026-v2","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/187/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/57af11fc-da82-4b68-abdf-b49c0003aff1/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec","summary":"There's a particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine, optimise one more thing, all in an attempt to feel a bit more in control.  Oliver Burkeman has a word for this: clenching. And he reckons it's squeezing the life out of us, even when it looks a lot like productivity.  In this episode, I sit down with Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and former writer of The Guardian's This Column Will Change Your Life, to talk about his forthcoming book Aliveness and what he calls unclenching, learning to loosen your grip on certainty rather than white-knuckle your way through it.  We get into flexible goals, why urgency is so often someone else's agenda in disguise, and how to stop tying your self-worth to your latest achievement.  If you have ever hit a goal and felt the satisfaction evaporate within minutes, this conversation will change how you think about ambition altogether.  Oliver and I discuss:  What \"clenching\" is, and why our instinct to grip tighter in uncertain times actually backfires  The insecure overachiever trap, and why hitting a goal rarely feels like enough for long  How Oliver's open list, closed list approach stops you drowning in fifty half-started things  Setting a \"no later than\" time instead of a strict start time, and why looser goals often get more done  Why urgency is so often someone else's agenda in disguise, and how to tell when it is genuinely yours  What Oliver actually does with the emails he has not gotten to yet  Key quotes   \"If you have this feeling of aliveness,…","meta_description":"There's a particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine, optimise&…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2184,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-work-960132/episodes/are-you-an-insecure-overachiever-oliver-burkeman-on-why-success-never-feels-like-enough/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/are-you-an-insecure-overachiever-oliver-burkeman-on-why-success-never-feels-like-enough.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}