Author Oliver Burkeman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date August 10, 2021
Print size 290 pages
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Provocative and interesting . . . effectively value your extraordinarily restricted time.” —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal
The common human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly temporary. Assuming you reside to be eighty, you might have simply over 4 thousand weeks.
Nobody wants telling there is not sufficient time. We’re obsessive about our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life steadiness, and the ceaseless battle in opposition to distraction; and we’re deluged with recommendation on turning into extra productive and environment friendly, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such methods usually find yourself making issues worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows extra intense, and nonetheless essentially the most significant components of life appear to lie simply past the horizon. Still, we not often make the connection between our every day struggles with time and the final word time administration drawback: the problem of how greatest to make use of our 4 thousand weeks.
Drawing on the insights of each historic and modern philosophers, psychologists, and religious academics, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, sensible, and in the end profound information to time and time administration. Rejecting the futile trendy fixation on “getting all the things performed,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to instruments for establishing a significant life by embracing finitude, exhibiting how most of the unhelpful methods we have come to consider time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, however selections we have made as people and as a society—and that we may do issues in a different way.
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