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Four Thousand Weeks

The smash-hit bestseller that will change your life

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Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This is the most important book ever written about time management.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife

What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts?

Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about 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 obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that 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 can do things differently.

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. Consciousness & Thought Philosophy Time Management Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Career Success Mental Health
All stars
Most relevant
this book is very well research
lots of great personal and international examples
changed good I think about efficiency
changed my mind about going back to the office
just read it

an absolute must for those who never have time

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Great journey within. Simple things seen in a new light.
A little daunting at first. Stick with it.

Be still and listen

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Amazing book. The author brakes all the dogma around time management and productivity.

This book has helped me dump a ton of performance anxiety and made me remember that we are here for a very limited time.

I've taken so much out of this book !

Forget all you knew about time management

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This was entirely NOT the book that I was expecting- another time management book to organize my life- instead it was a refreshing new way to look at time and what gives life meaning. I highly recommend this to anyone at almost any stage in life.

Life changing!

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I started this book expecting a precise method of how to get everything done and fulfill all my life goals. And finished the book with an astonishing (wonderfully freeing) perspective on my entire life.

Recovering Perfectionist

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