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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman
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.