Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals
Oliver Burkeman (Author)
We are obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction. We are deluged with advice on becoming more productive, learn hacks to optimize our days. We rarely make the connection between our daily struggles and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use the time we are given. Burkeman rejects the futile modern fixation on "getting everything done" and instead introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude. He shows how many of the unhelpful ways we have come to think about time are actually choices we have made-- and that we could do things differently
eBook, English, 2021
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021
1 online resource (x, 271 pages)
9780374715243, 0374715246
1263359865
Introduction: In the long run, we're all dead
Part I: Choosing to choose. The limit-embracing life ; The efficiency trap ; Facing finitude ; Becoming a better procrastinator ; The watermelon problem ; The intimate interrupter
Part II: Beyond control. We never really have time ; You are here ; Rediscovering rest ; The impatience spiral ; Staying on the bus ; The loneliness of the digital nomad ; Cosmic insignificance therapy ; The human disease
Afterword: Beyond hope
Appendix: Ten tools for embracing your finitude