Oliver burkeman

I loved this book. The premise is this: life is short; each of us, on average, is alive for only four thousand weeks. It's impossible to accomplish and experience everything we want to. So how do we decide what is actually worth our time? I especially appreciated his thoughts on how everyone is just winging it, all the time, and that serializing our tasks will save us. I read this book very slowly: I rarely spend more than a week reading a book, but I read this one over the course of three…

“Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context.” ~ Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? **The instant Sunday Times bestseller** Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman…

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In a culture that values persistent productivity, one can be left feeling chronically behind. In this episode, author and recovering time management junkie, Oliver Burkeman encourages us to stop scrambling to fit it all in by exploring the...

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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.” Amazon affiliate link.

A recovering productivity addict wants us to think about time management through the lens of our imminent mortality