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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This can definitely be seen as a cozy self-help gem, but also as an incredibly important philosophical and psychological work on time, how it feels, how it moves and when it matters.
It lets us focus on the individual, "insignificant" experience, instead of comparing our lives to others.
The main challenges this book tackles are patience, priorities and personal relationships in a sense of community. All if these things are put in the context of time, about how the humanity has survived for the past couple of thousand years. But it also revisits what we learned from the pandemic about time well spent.
This book found me at the right time and I think anybody would enjoy having read this. It's the kind of work one may want to reread every five years or so.
It also refers to the works of men and woman equally (which is, unfortunately, still not common).
It lets us focus on the individual, "insignificant" experience, instead of comparing our lives to others.
The main challenges this book tackles are patience, priorities and personal relationships in a sense of community. All if these things are put in the context of time, about how the humanity has survived for the past couple of thousand years. But it also revisits what we learned from the pandemic about time well spent.
This book found me at the right time and I think anybody would enjoy having read this. It's the kind of work one may want to reread every five years or so.
It also refers to the works of men and woman equally (which is, unfortunately, still not common).