We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. CAL NEWPORT, author of A World Without Email and Deep Work Only by confronting this latter question can we unlock a calmer, more meaningful, more resilient approach to organizing our time” The drive to get more done can become an excuse to avoid figuring out what we actually want to accomplish. “Oliver Burkeman provides an important and insightful reassessment of productivity. DANIEL PINK, author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human This profound (and often hilarious) book will prompt you to rethink your worship of efficiency, reject the cult of busyness, and reconfigure your life around what truly matters” What we don’t know-but what Oliver Burkeman is here to teach us - is that our control over that time is also limited. It invites nothing less than a new relationship with time-and with life itself” - KRISTA TIPPETT, host of On Being This book is at once sobering and refreshing on all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as time management. Four Thousand Weeks is a splendid offering in that spirit. “I have long loved Oliver Burkeman's wise and witty journalism that both interrogates and elevates the self-help realm-revealing its possibilities for absurdity while honoring the deeper human impulses that it meets. NAOMI ALDERMAN, author of The Power and Disobedience The modern world teaches us to pretend to be immortal-this book is a dip in the cold, clear waters of reality, returning us refreshed and alive” Compassionate, funny and wise, it has not left my mind since I read it. “ A book to read and re-read, to absorb and reflect on. ![]() MARK MANSON, author of Everything is F*cked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck “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” ADAM GRANT, author of Think Again and host of WorkLife His writing will challenge you to rethink many of your beliefs about getting things done-and you’ll be wiser because of it” Oliver Burkeman offers a searing indictment of productivity hacking and profound insights on how to make the best use of our scarcest, most precious resource. “ This is the most important book ever written about time management.
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