Four Thousand Weeks
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
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Oliver Burkeman
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Oliver Burkeman
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The instant Sunday Times best seller.
A Financial Times, Guardian and Observer Book of the Year.
One of the Daily Telegraph's 75 Best Books of 2021.
What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts?
We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about 4,000 weeks.
Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of the challenge. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' it introduces listeners to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny.
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your 4,000 weeks count.
©2021 Oliver Burkeman (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in.... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living." (Emma Gannon)
"A much-needed reality check on our culture's crazy assumptions around work, productivity and living a meaningful life." (Mark Manson, best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck)
"Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful, actually genuinely useful." (Marian Keyes)
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-09-22
Brilliant!
A must for everyone who can’t live in present, who are anxious, who are on hamster wheel of being productive, who are full of self doubts, which I v believe makes it 7 billion plus audience 😎… Listen at 0.9x speed to really saviour the experience!
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- RP
- 09-01-22
Genuine Research and Original Thinking.
This is what genuine Research and Original Thinking looks like. Respect to the author for writing such an amazing book.
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- Harshavardhana
- 03-02-23
Pick your battles
It's a good book to reinforce the perspective of our limited lifetime. The gist of it, one will never have time to do or achieve all the things one wants or society expects, so pick your battles accordingly and then focus on those.
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- 03-07-23
A totally ifferent take management
A very good, brief book that is also very interesting read. I was recommended by someone and I am glad I read (listened) to this book. It draws from various researches, other books and hence even more credible than author's own opinion. And the chapters are organised well that makes it interesting also.
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- Prateek Srivastava
- 12-04-23
A great book !
Loved it!
It has been read by the author himself. A great experience to have.
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- Priyanka
- 22-08-22
Book to reread every couple of months
Love to come back to this book often. It's more about life management than time management.
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- 19-07-24
Absolutely magnificent !!
This has been the best audiobook I have listened to till now! I love all my previous books, about 48 now, but this one has stood out to be the best. Must listen ! And follow and be happy/content !!
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- Abinash
- 16-02-24
A complete new perspective to your life. Engaging and transcending thoughts simplified.
A book everyone should read/listen. It’s enlightening and will make you think. I thank the author for sharing such an amazing work with the world. Much needed.
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- Siddhesh Raut
- 23-05-25
I was waiting for a book to change my life... this is it
A slim volume deceptively categorised as "Self-help" each chapter was an axe through the ice that got me past my fears, my inhibitions and my neuroses to truly start living. Highly recommended and a lovely narration. This is a book that gently tells us the difficult truths we need to hear to free ourselves from running away from our mortality, and truly start living in each moment.
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- Navneet Nair
- 01-10-21
A Walden for the modern era
Much like Thoreau, Burkeman explores the advantages of a different way of thinking about life. While there are a lot of Stoic undertones, I felt a lot of the messages were rooted in the Buddhist teachings of impermanence and accepting and working with a finite life.
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