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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
One of the best book of the year and the best one on the subject.
A completely different kind of time management book. While not explicitly spiritual, I appreciated how much ancient and religious wisdom Burkeman drew on to lay out a really compelling premise: you will never have time to accomplish it all, see it all, or experience it all. A human life is simply too finite to fit it all in, so it comes down to making real choices. What kind of life will you choose to live moment-by-moment? Burkeman’s starting place and his advice on narrowing down the options make for a refreshing approach that can serve as a respite from books that would have you believe you can fit it all in if you just try harder.
Amazing book! So well written and packed with essential truths and realities. I want to read this again on my Kindle, take my time (letting tasks take as long as they need to take), and take notes so I can internalize the profound wisdom in this book.
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Surprisingly engaging and a call to awareness.
Easily my favorite nonfiction book of the year. This was an eye-opening perspective on time and how modern society views time and our relationship with it: we tend to ignore the uncomfortable scary truth that we're going to die and instead focus on being seen as super productive, busying ourselves with distractions to put up a front of having some control over our life when in reality we just have roughly 4,000 weeks to live and cannot escape the finitude of life, no matter how much we pretend otherwise (so much talk about death and mortality, this book completely embodies my bookshelf tag "time for an existential crisis" to the EXTREME. I had many existential crises while reading).
"We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, in clear-eyed acknowledgment of our limitations, in the undeluded mode of existence that Heidegger calls 'being-toward-death,' aware that this is it, that life is not a dress rehearsal, that every choice requires myriad sacrifices, and that time is always already running out--indeed, that it may run out today, tomorrow, or next month. And so it's not merely a matter of spending each day 'as if' it were your last, as the cliche has it. The point is that it always actually might be. I can't entirely depend upon a single moment of the future."
There's so many more quotes from the book I want to drop here! I'll save you from a long ass review and just say READ IT!
"We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, in clear-eyed acknowledgment of our limitations, in the undeluded mode of existence that Heidegger calls 'being-toward-death,' aware that this is it, that life is not a dress rehearsal, that every choice requires myriad sacrifices, and that time is always already running out--indeed, that it may run out today, tomorrow, or next month. And so it's not merely a matter of spending each day 'as if' it were your last, as the cliche has it. The point is that it always actually might be. I can't entirely depend upon a single moment of the future."
There's so many more quotes from the book I want to drop here! I'll save you from a long ass review and just say READ IT!
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Subtitled "Time Management for Mortals", this book is... well, it's not really about time management at all; it's a philosophy book.
While Oliver makes reference to some of the traditional time management strategies, the main idea is less about how to manage the limited amount of time people have in their life (about 4000 weeks, hence the title), and more about how to cope with the fact that you _basically_ have very little time on this planet. He repeatedly points out that doing everything is impossible, being in control of everything is impossible, and that acknowledging this frees you up to do what matters. So yes, at the end of the day it's about time management in a sense, but doesn't attempt to provide any real tactics.
Now, this approach may sound fatalistic, and I can see how younger people might not grok it, but at the age of 47 I'm... _pretty aware_ that I'm going to die and have used up (likely) more than half of my life. At the same time, there's _so much_ that I still want to do and that has caused me frustration, anxiety, and depression. Coming at it from this perspective though: accepting that you simply cannot do everything enables you to focus only on the things which matter the most. From this perspective, saying no is much more empowering than saying yes as you're able to be more deliberate about what you do.
While Oliver makes reference to some of the traditional time management strategies, the main idea is less about how to manage the limited amount of time people have in their life (about 4000 weeks, hence the title), and more about how to cope with the fact that you _basically_ have very little time on this planet. He repeatedly points out that doing everything is impossible, being in control of everything is impossible, and that acknowledging this frees you up to do what matters. So yes, at the end of the day it's about time management in a sense, but doesn't attempt to provide any real tactics.
Now, this approach may sound fatalistic, and I can see how younger people might not grok it, but at the age of 47 I'm... _pretty aware_ that I'm going to die and have used up (likely) more than half of my life. At the same time, there's _so much_ that I still want to do and that has caused me frustration, anxiety, and depression. Coming at it from this perspective though: accepting that you simply cannot do everything enables you to focus only on the things which matter the most. From this perspective, saying no is much more empowering than saying yes as you're able to be more deliberate about what you do.
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced