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Sign up todayFour Thousand Weeks
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
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Oliver Burkeman
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Length
5 hours 54 minutes
Language
English
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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
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.
'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
'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
© Oliver Burkeman 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Oliver Burkeman (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
Oliver Burkeman (Reader)
Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning feature writer for the Guardian. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology, 'This Column Will Change Your Life', and has reported from London, Washington and New York.
Oliver Burkeman (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
Oliver Burkeman (Reader)
Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning feature writer for the Guardian. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology, 'This Column Will Change Your Life', and has reported from London, Washington and New York.
