Description: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Book and Mortar Record Store Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals -- Oliver Burkeman 23.93 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Author: Oliver Burkeman Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 08/10/2021 Pages: 288 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 0.90lbs Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d ISBN: 9780374159122 Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/15/2021 About the Author Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking. He wrote a long-running weekly column on psychology for The Guardian, This Column Will Change Your Life, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychologies, and New Philosopher. He lives in New York City.
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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Self-Help,Happiness
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Artist: Burkeman, Oliver
Album: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Book Title: Four Thousand Weeks : Time Management for Mortals
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Personal Growth / Happiness, General, Self-Management / Time Management
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover