4000 Weeks : Time Management for Mortals

4000 Weeks : Time Management for Mortals *

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FGV64B1

The author's previous book also had a catchy title: "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking"

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2 weeks after publication, the 4000 Weeks book is #4 on the NYT Bestseller "self-help" list.

• A large version of the meetup image is #1 in this meetup's photos.

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From the Amazon Review

“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

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.

REVIEWS...

“We all know our time is limited. What we don’t know—but what Oliver Burkeman is here to teach us—is that our control over that time is also limited. This profound (and often hilarious) book will prompt you to rethink your worship of efficiency, reject the cult of busyness, and reconfigure your life around what truly matters.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human

“Oliver Burkeman provides an important and insightful reassessment of productivity. The drive to get more done can become an excuse to avoid figuring out what we actually want to accomplish. Only by confronting this latter question can we unlock a calmer, more meaningful, more resilient approach to organizing our time.”
—Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work

“This is the most important book ever written about time management. Oliver Burkeman offers a searing indictment of productivity hacking and profound insights on how to make the best use of our scarcest, most precious resource.
―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife

“A wonderfully honest book, Four Thousand Weeks is a much-needed reality check on our culture’s crazy assumptions around work, productivity, and living a meaningful life.”
—Mark Manson, bestselling author of Everything is Fcked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck.

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Resources for the discussion...

-- 6-min overview narrated by the author- https://youtu.be/4BgVKyBreBs

-- 18-min TEDx talk by the author 3 years ago - https://youtu.be/XtfCmhPr-J8

-- 53-min interview/talk with the author - https://youtu.be/NggiWjSg8TA

-- 60-min interview with an academic about his book - https://youtu.be/8mPRahIEmIU

--> This is the one to watch... 82-min interview with Robert Wright of the MeaningOfLife.tv vlog, a blogger I pay to read every month (really) - https://youtu.be/ell7_yPIeVo

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Steve Buss