Life and Lessons by Sean Spooner

Download the 20 books that changed my 20s – for free: https://seanspooner.co.uk/booksOn this week's episode of Life and Lessons, to make turning 29, I share 7 lessons I needed to hear 10 years ago, when I was 19.

Download the 20 books that changed my 20s – for free: https://seanspooner.co.uk/booksOn this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I give you an update on running three marathons in ten weeks, and I share some details on how I'm approaching my planning for 2025.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I make the case for why you should act like the person you're not, and I explain why right now is a perfect time to turn off the noise of the world and focus on yourself.

If you feel like you're fighting a constant uphill battle that you can't seem to win, it's probably your mind playing a trick on you. You are making progress, even if it doesn't feel like it. And when you zoom out far enough, you can see just how dramatically your life is changing. So you need to keep going.

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and author of books including The Sunday Times Bestselling 'Four Thousand Weeks' and his latest release, 'Meditations For Mortals'. No matter how hard you try, you're never going to get everything done. There simply isn't enough time in our finite lives for us to tackle everything we'd like to. Our to-do lists are always going to win the battle. So what can we do about that?In this conversation, Oliver makes the case that surrendering to reality and being kinder to yourself is the true source of productivity, and offers practical ideas on how you can get more done and feel better in the process. Listen to Meditations For Mortals on Audible for free: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=seanspooner-21Buy Meditations For Mortals on Amazon: https://amzn.to/48fJAvc Oliver Burkeman: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/Sean Spooner: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/

Rory Sutherland is an author, behavioural scientist, and vice-chairman of Ogilvy. If you’re anything like me, you could listen to Rory talk for hours. I was lucky enough to speak to Rory for the podcast a couple of years ago, and the scope of our conversation back then was fairly all-encompassing.This time around, I wanted to get Rory’s insights on how we can use the principles of behavioural science to apply to self-improvement. But during the conversation, we go into all kinds of interesting rabbit holes and explore some really useful ideas – on everything from self-improvement, the trap of over-optimisation and how to live a more meaningful life, through to the 20mph speed limits in Wales, and the Sainsbury’s in Pontypridd.-If you want to catch the latest episodes of the podcast, plus EXCLUSIVE daily Little Lessons episodes, you need to be subscribed on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LF1Hao4i4CYeNNYiFaoixI write a weekly newsletter every Monday morning, sharing one simple idea to help shape your week. It's free and you can join here: https://seanspooner.co.uk/-Follow Rory on Twitter here: https://x.com/rorysutherlandHave a question? Want to suggest a guest? You can message me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/spoonersean/or X/Twitter here: https://x.com/spoonersean

It can be tempting to focus your self-improvement efforts on the areas of your life where things are already going well. But this isn't how you bring about meaningful change. In this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I explain why you should focus on the things you suck at first, before trying to hyper-optimise pointless 1% skills.I also discuss the idea that winners hardly ever realise they're winning, and explain why you need to keep score for yourself.-If you want to catch the latest episodes of the podcast, plus EXCLUSIVE daily Little Lessons episodes, you need to be subscribed on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LF1Hao4i4CYeNNYiFaoixI write a weekly newsletter every Monday morning, sharing one simple idea to help shape your week. It's free and you can join here: https://seanspooner.co.uk/-Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/spoonersean/or X/Twitter here: https://x.com/spoonersean

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