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. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781847924025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6049054448
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Psychology
Author
Oliver Burkeman
Publication Name
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science, Management
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
294g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Oliver Burkeman
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy, Popular Psychology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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