Name: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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Author: Oliver Burkeman
ISBN: 9780374159122

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oliver Burkeman

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780374159122

Synopsis "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals "

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." --Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street JournalThe 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.

Oliver Burkeman

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Oliver Burkeman is a British writer and journalist who currently lives in New York. His work has been recognized on several occasions, he was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2006 and named Young Journalist of the Year by The Foreign Press Association. He is the author of several bestsellers such as The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, and the international bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. He also writes the popular weekly psychology column for The Guardian "This Column Will Change Your Life", in which he addresses all kinds of issues related to the world of psychology, philosophy, and mental health, among others. @oliverburkeman

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