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A review by jaylajohnson
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
5.0
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!