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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
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I'm finding the self help genre to be repetitive, which i think is intentional but not the most riveting. However, there were some nuggets of wisdom to help put our modern lives in a bit of perspective and confront reality.
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British author and journalist Oliver Burkeman calls himself a ‘productivity geek’ aka “someone who is passionate about crossing items off their to-do lists”. And do I plead guilty at that! Under the false pretense to get the things out of my head, I even make virtually daily to-do lists for my 8 to 10 pm week time. And, obviously predictably so, get frustrated when I do not get through them before going to bed. So yes, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals does burst one of this century’s biggest myths or what Burkeman refers to as ‘the efficiency trap’: the more you get done, the more you will attract to do, never leaving you truly ‘done’. As in: you can never win! Another truth to truly embrace is to de-instrumentalise time and foster the patience to solve problems, go for radical incrementalism and to stay at it. No matter what. This take-away I for one will put immediately into practice: focus on one big project at a time as in ‘serialise, serialise, serialise’. Definitely a book to reread.
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This book contains a useful message about human finitude and the importance of accepting that. Burkeman describes his transition from a productivity obsessive to his current state, one that's less focused on optimizing and squeezing the most out of every day.
Burkeman's narration is soothing and calming, much like that of his fellow countryman Tim Harford.
I felt the book to be repetitive in places. The same message was delivered in different ways, with different supporting quotes. This is a problem that extends to other popular nonfiction books that stretch out a central thesis into a publishable length; it's not unique to this book.
In a nutshell: Human life is finite. It's better to come to terms with that in order to spend the time we have on the things that matter the most. That's likely the best way to make use of these four thousand weeks we have (well, technically, we don't have that time; Heidegger might say we are that time).
That's a useful message.
Burkeman's narration is soothing and calming, much like that of his fellow countryman Tim Harford.
I felt the book to be repetitive in places. The same message was delivered in different ways, with different supporting quotes. This is a problem that extends to other popular nonfiction books that stretch out a central thesis into a publishable length; it's not unique to this book.
In a nutshell: Human life is finite. It's better to come to terms with that in order to spend the time we have on the things that matter the most. That's likely the best way to make use of these four thousand weeks we have (well, technically, we don't have that time; Heidegger might say we are that time).
That's a useful message.
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There are some interesting parts of this book if you lie history, however the bases of it hinges on very flawed thinking. The author is out of touch and thinks his flaws and opinions are universal, not worth the read.
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As someone who's always been massively sceptical of self-help books... I was NOT expecting to find this as helpful as I did. I like the slightly philosophical, no-bullshit approach, and the small nudges of practical advice are actually useful. Colour me pleasantly surprised