Four Thousand Weeks

Time and How to Use it

Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
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9781784704001
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The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn' t enough time. We' re obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with ' getting everything done,' it introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life, showing how 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 its many revelations will transform the reader' s worldview. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its grasp.
A wonderfully honest book, Four Thousand Weeks is a much-needed reality check on our culture' s crazy assumptions around work, productivity and living a meaningful life -- Mark Manson, bestselling author of Everything is F*cked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Oliver Burkeman provides an important and insightful reassessment of productivity. The drive to get more done can become an excuse to avoid figuring out what we actually want to accomplish. Only by confronting this latter question can we unlock a calmer, more meaningful, more resilient approach to organizing our time -- Cal Newport, bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work
Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning feature writer for the Guardian. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology, ' This Column Will Change Your Life' , and has reported from London, Washington and New York.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784704001
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 288

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