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hannahsbooksandblackcats's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
I listened to the audiobook. There were some thought provoking points but it was quite repetitive and all over the place. I’m not sure this is the answer to time anxiety.
sammie_mae's review against another edition
3.0
Choose a few things, forget everything else and accept the inevitable loss you will feel. If you are anxious, depressed and full of existential dread read this book will make you feel 10 x worse about literally everything. Push through, keep reading. By the end of the book you *may* feel slightly better about life in general.
readhumanbean's review against another edition
5.0
Cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone with symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, OCD, depression, or really any sense of dread toward the general concept of time, mortality, capitalism, or present and future environmental destruction.
It helps to have an author with a politically modern perspective, and one with a keen understanding of the ongoing mental health ramifications of our pandemic era. He clearly skews closer to leftist comrade than neoliberal shill, and that helps set Four Thousand Weeks apart from its self-help/pop psych literary competitors.
And if you go the audiobook route, the British Oliver Burkeman reads it to you, and hey isn't that fun?
It helps to have an author with a politically modern perspective, and one with a keen understanding of the ongoing mental health ramifications of our pandemic era. He clearly skews closer to leftist comrade than neoliberal shill, and that helps set Four Thousand Weeks apart from its self-help/pop psych literary competitors.
And if you go the audiobook route, the British Oliver Burkeman reads it to you, and hey isn't that fun?
hgoravec's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
4.0
It always feel slightly strange to rate nonfiction books, but I did enjoy this one. Audio because I cannot focus on nonfiction long enough otherwise, and I do appreciate when nonfiction authors read their own audiobooks.
I’ve been reading Oliver Burke’s newsletter for about a year now, and I do enjoy it. There’s certainly at times a white British male privilege that some through, but not nearly as often as it could. And ultimately, I agree with how he has come to think about our relationship to time and productivity. There’s a lot of reframing in this book that seems ridiculous and insurmountable until something in your brain clicks over, and suddenly you think “of course this is how it should be.” I would like to read it again and perhaps with more attention, be able to more specifically apply some of the thinking to my own life
I’ve been reading Oliver Burke’s newsletter for about a year now, and I do enjoy it. There’s certainly at times a white British male privilege that some through, but not nearly as often as it could. And ultimately, I agree with how he has come to think about our relationship to time and productivity. There’s a lot of reframing in this book that seems ridiculous and insurmountable until something in your brain clicks over, and suddenly you think “of course this is how it should be.” I would like to read it again and perhaps with more attention, be able to more specifically apply some of the thinking to my own life