Four thousand weeks : time and how to use it

What if you attempted to quit doing everything so that you could focus on what matters in the end?"This book is wonderful. Instead of offering new tips on how to cram more into your day, it questions why we feel the need to ... Acting as a warm, funny, if slightly anxious and repetitive narrator, [Burkeman] quotes philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers on this issue of how to spend our lives..." - Marianne Power, The Times (UK)Four Thousand Weeks offers readers skills for building a meaningful existence by accepting rather than denying their limits, rejecting the useless contemporary preoccupation with "getting everything done." Oliver Burkeman seeks to realign our connection with time in order to free us from its tyranny by drawing on the lessons of both ancient and modern philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers.“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. His writing will challenge you to rethink many of your beliefs about getting things done - and you’ll be wiser because of it.” - Adam Grant author of Think AgainAccept your limitations. reorient your life. Make the most of your 4,000 weeks. Life is temporary. Not everything has to fit in... Read this book to get a fresh perspective on life. **the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller** **a Financial Times, Guardian And Observer Book Of The Year** **one Of The Daily Telegraph's 75 Best Books Of 2021** 'life Is Finite. You Don't Have To Fit Everything In... Read This Book And Wake Up To A New Way Of Thinking And Living' Emma Gannon What If You Stopped Trying To Do Everything, So That You Could Finally Get Round To What Counts? We're Obsessed With Our Lengthening To-do Lists, Our Overfilled Inboxes, The Struggle Against Distraction, And The Sense That Our Attention Spans Are Shrivelling. 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. Four Thousand Weeks Is An Uplifting, Engrossing And Deeply Realistic Exploration Of The Challenge. Rejecting The Futile Modern Obsession With 'getting Everything Done,' It Introduces Readers To Tools For Constructing A Meaningful Life By Embracing Rather Than Denying Their Limitations. Drawing On The Insights Of Both Ancient And Contemporary Philosophers, Psychologists, And Spiritual Teachers, Oliver Burkeman Sets Out To Realign Our Relationship With Time - And In Doing So, To Liberate Us From Its Tyranny. Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life. Make Your Four Thousand Weeks Count. The Perfect Read For Anyone Wanting To Make The Most Of Their Year And Achieve Their 'new Year, New You' Goals. 'a Much-needed Reality Check On Our Culture's Crazy Assumptions Around Work, Productivity And Living A Meaningful Life' Mark Manson, Bestselling Author Of The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck 'comforting, Fascinating, Engaging, Inspiring And Useful, Actually Genuinely Useful' Marian Keyes The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' it introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life, showing how 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 its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its grasp. **The instant Sunday Times bestseller** What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Discover how to make your four thousand weeks count this summer. 'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' Emma Gannon 'Every sentence is riven with gold' Chris Evans 'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' Marian Keyes **The instant Sunday Times bestseller** What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Discover how to make your four thousand weeks count in 2024. 'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' Emma Gannon 'Every sentence is riven with gold' Chris Evans 'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' Marian Keyes