Four Thousand Weeks

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author: Oliver Burkeman

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A wonderfully liberating, perspective-shifting book about how we struggle with having too little time, and a life-enhancing approach to how we can spend our four thousand weeks - the average human life-span.

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is profound exploration of time management and the concept of "busyness," offering practical strategies and philosophical insights for reclaiming control of our lives and finding meaning in a world that often seems overwhelming and chaotic.

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The paperback edition of the liberating Sunday Times bestseller is set to enhance readers' lives even further with extra content on how we can all spend our four thousand weeks.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 that draws on philosophy, literature and psychology to cover the past, present and future of our battles with time. It goes far beyond practical tips, and its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview.Drawing on the insights of ancient philosophers, Benedictine monks, artists and authors, Scandinavian social reformers, renegade Buddhist technologists and many others, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its grasp.

Critic Reviews

“A wonderfully honest book, Four Thousand Week s is a much-needed reality check on our culture's crazy assumptions around work, productivity and living a meaningful life”

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 ... My favourite kind of book is this one ... it examines the human struggle with intelligence, wisdom, humour and humility. -- Marianne Power The Times
Perfectly pitched somewhere between practical self-help book and philosophical quest ... as with all the best quests, its many pleasures don't require a fast-forward button, but happen along the way -- Tim Adams Observer
Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in. Enjoy your life. Breathe out. Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method
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
His book will challenge and amuse you. And it may even spur you on to change your life. At the very least reading it would be a good use of one of your four thousand weeks -- Robbie Smith Evening Standard

About the Author

Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote- Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.oliverburkeman.com

Product Details

Publisher

Vintage Publishing | Vintage

Published

7th April 2022

Pages

288

ISBN

9781784704001

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

19 Nov, 2024

Brilliant! A wise and witty read that will reshape your relationship with time and help you focus on the things that matter. Insightful, thought-provoking and deeply humane.
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10 Nov, 2022

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