Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman - Collection Business

288 pages, parution le 07/04/2022

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Résumé

**The instant Sunday Time s bestseller**

The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best?

Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem that draws on philosophy, literature and psychology to cover the past, present and future of our battles with time. It goes far beyond practical tips, and its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview.

Drawing on the insights of ancient philosophers, Benedictine monks, artists and authors, Scandinavian social reformers, renegade Buddhist technologists and many others, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its grasp.

Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking , and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian , 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Psychologies and New Philosopher .

He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Penguin
Auteur(s)	Oliver Burkeman
Collection	Business
Parution	07/04/2022
Nb. de pages	288
Format	12 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781784704001