Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

De: Oliver Burkeman

Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This program is read by the author.

"Burkeman and his irresistible British accent shifted my paradigm a couple centimeters . . . 'The day will never arrive when you have everything under control,' he calmly whispered in my ear, and I think I believed him." - Vulture

"The philosophical tone of his delivery is perfect for [Burkeman's] thoughtful message: We can enjoy life more if we appreciate the present moment, stay in touch with our deeper selves, and nurture our connections with people and the natural world." - AudioFile Magazine

"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

The 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Overall a good book.

More for the overprotective and neurotic types. May be discouraging for the severely underproductive folk.

Total perspective shift!

This is the book I didn't realize I needed. The anti-productivity time management book. Fantastic.

Stop living for the future

We have heard about living in the present moment, but this book gives us insight into why we don’t and offers practical, witty and even sobering reasons as to why we should. Simply put, we are rarely satisfied and modern technologies and so-called efficiencies have made us impatient and less satisfied. The optimal future person that we are constantly working towards being is stealing our joy and our time on this planet. Being an underachiever by society’s standards is not a flaw, it’s inevitable. Accept that, set your own standards and cadence, and feel the weight on your shoulders ease up. Side note: After hearing the part about how most of us are too impatient to read because we can’t make reading happen faster, I felt a guilty about getting the audible copy and putting it on 1.3X to make it move a little faster.

fresh, much needed perspective

great book, so spot on. if you are someone who feels like you get more and more behind the more that you do, listen to this.

Great Book on Productivity, Happiness, and Life

A coherent look at how to use your limited time to be productive and happy without driving yourself crazy.