Four Thousand Weeks: Time And How To Use It - Oliver Burkeman

About This Book :

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

About The Author :

The author of "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" , Oliver Burkeman is an accomplished journalist and writer whose work has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. In this book, Burkeman draws on the insights of ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers to provide readers with a humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. He challenges the modern fixation on productivity and efficiency, arguing that it often leads to more anxiety and less meaning in life. Instead, he suggests embracing the finitude of our human lifespan and rethinking our approach to time management. Burkeman's book offers readers a refreshing perspective on time and the tools to construct a more meaningful life.