Four Thousand Weeks

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

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Sprache: English

Am 2021 von Penguin Audio veröffentlicht.

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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 …

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hat Four Thousand Weeks von Oliver Burkeman besprochen

Embrace Your Finitude

If you're a perpetually busy person seeking meaning and clarity in your everyday life, this one's for you. The book tackles the negatives of ever-increasing productivity, staring down your own mortality, taking the time to enjoy life, embracing mediocrity in hobbies, and finding comfort in who you are rather than striving to be the person you believe you ought to be.

hat Four Thousand Weeks von Oliver Burkeman besprochen

Potentially life-changing

This book offered so many really eye-opening perspectives into life and life choices. A must-read. Obviously, life is short. But exactly how short it really is and what to do about it is what this book is all about. So many anxieties we have and decisions we make are (consciously and unconsciously) tied to how short our lives are. This book is a good reminder of the importance of an intentional life. And you should really read it.

hat Four Thousand Weeks von Oliver Burkeman besprochen

A good alternative to traditional time management books

I read this as the description really spoke to my todo-list overwhelm and feeling that everything needed to be done.

This book reminds you of the obvious - we're all finite, todo lists are always infinite. You were never going to get everything done anyway, so stop worrying about it. Instead, prioritise ruthlessly, choose things that you're willing to let go or fail at, and value the "now" over the unreachable future that you think will exist when you finish your todo list.

Overall, the book does what it sets out to achieve fairly well. Unfortunately it has a narrowly neurotypical view and doesn't really give space for those of us who struggle to let things go and often fall into absolutist thinking about their todo list. It also makes assumptions that everyone wants similiar things in a few places, especially when it talks about relationships - we …

hat Four Thousand Weeks von Oliver Burkeman besprochen

Review of 'Four Thousand Weeks' on 'Goodreads'

Well written, with compelling stories.

It (the content) was not entirely new for me. In the end, we all know that we will die but to make it really concrete by highlighting the average 4000 weeks was somehow eye-re-opening.
In the end, it all comes down to
- Don't overestimate your impact on the world. It can be freeing to not need to come up with the next big thing.
- Don't underestimate what you are doing. At least it makes someone happy and I hope it's you.

You will very likely oscillate between those two extremes and that is probably very good and if you float to one side or the other, read the book, or just this comment ;-) and try to move in the other direction. :-)

Themen

  • nyt:business-books=2021-09-12
  • New York Times bestseller
  • Economics
  • Time management
  • Happiness

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