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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
You get about 4,000 weeks. Spend fewer of them feeling behind.
Who it's for
If you're stretched between a job and the people you love and keep thinking a better system will fix it, this book offers relief instead of another system.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Journalist Oliver Burkeman starts from the fact that an average human life lasts roughly four thousand weeks and argues that most productivity advice makes us more anxious, not less. He describes the "efficiency trap," in which getting faster only invites more demands, and urges readers to accept their limits, choose what to neglect, and spend more unhurried time with family, friends and community.
Where to find it
Bookstores and libraries (print, ebook and audiobook read by the author).
Before you start
Heads up: Frank talk about mortality.
Age: Adult nonfiction
the best way out is always through.Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants,” North of Boston
