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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
Over hoe 'druk-zijn' ons 'zijn' beïnvloed. Het is een soort self-help boek waarin duidelijk wordt gemaakt dat je niet alles kan en zou moeten willen doen in je leven, en dat die realisatie heel fijn kan zijn. Het gaf me een verfrissende blik op mijn leven en ik zou het zeker aanraden! Had zelfs al bedacht dat ik hem misschien ooit nog wel een keer wil lezen :)
Simplified summary:
What even is time? This is not your typical productivity book.
Opening lines:
The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. Here's one way of putting things in perspective: the first modern humans appeared on the plains of Africa at least 200,000 years ago, and scientists estimate that life, in some form, will persist for another 1.5 billion years or more, until the intensifying heat of the sun condemns the last organism to death. But you? Assuming you live to be eighty, you'll have had about four thousand weeks.
Review:
I absolutely adored this book. I read it fairly quickly, but I plan on jumping back into it with my wife and discussing each chapter. I highly recommend you do the same - find someone to talk to about this book. I didn't agree with everything in this book, but the overarching philosophies presented about what time and time management is I found to be poignant and especially important today. My favorite concept in this book: we've been treating time as this abstract thing that we try to manipulate but that can never happen. We are time.
What even is time? This is not your typical productivity book.
Opening lines:
The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. Here's one way of putting things in perspective: the first modern humans appeared on the plains of Africa at least 200,000 years ago, and scientists estimate that life, in some form, will persist for another 1.5 billion years or more, until the intensifying heat of the sun condemns the last organism to death. But you? Assuming you live to be eighty, you'll have had about four thousand weeks.
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I absolutely adored this book. I read it fairly quickly, but I plan on jumping back into it with my wife and discussing each chapter. I highly recommend you do the same - find someone to talk to about this book. I didn't agree with everything in this book, but the overarching philosophies presented about what time and time management is I found to be poignant and especially important today. My favorite concept in this book: we've been treating time as this abstract thing that we try to manipulate but that can never happen. We are time.
This book is a mix of social science, self-help and philosophy. And it kind of rocked my world. I didn't intend to start this book on January 1, but it is an excellent primer to think about a new year and my place in the world. I finished the audiobook, and then promptly checked out a paper copy from the library. It is packed full of advice that I've already started to put into practice in an effort to live my life to the fullest - focusing on the priority items rather than the low hanging fruit. Oh, and in addition to the insight, I really enjoyed the tone throughout. The author takes the subject seriously, but does not ever feel self-important.
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reflective
medium-paced
Such a great read - a time management book not about optimizing your time down to the millisecond, but about leaving room to enjoy all the little things in life.
If we start fitting in more into our life, we begin to realize that the goalposts start to shift and more things will then feel more important, meaningful, necessary. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,”
“The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible—the quest to become the optimized, infinitely capable, emotionally invincible, fully independent person you’re officially supposed to be. Then you get to roll up your sleeves and start work on what’s gloriously possible instead.”
If we start fitting in more into our life, we begin to realize that the goalposts start to shift and more things will then feel more important, meaningful, necessary. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,”
“The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible—the quest to become the optimized, infinitely capable, emotionally invincible, fully independent person you’re officially supposed to be. Then you get to roll up your sleeves and start work on what’s gloriously possible instead.”
informative
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reflective
medium-paced
inspiring
informative
inspiring
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fast-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
After years of listening and reading about time management and how to be more productive, this is a book that is so much more than all that comes before. Highly recommended.