Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals

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Label

Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals

Title remainder

time management for mortals

Statement of responsibility

Oliver Burkeman

Title variation

• 4000 weeks
• Time management for mortals

Creator

• Burkeman, Oliver

Contributor

• Burkeman, Oliver
• hoopla digital

Author

• Burkeman, Oliver

Narrator

• Burkeman, Oliver

Subject

• Time management
• Happiness

Language

eng

Summary

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This program is read by the author. "Burkeman and his irresistible British accent shifted my paradigm a couple centimeters . . . 'The day will never arrive when you have everything under control,' he calmly whispered in my ear, and I think I believed him." - Vulture "The philosophical tone of his delivery is perfect for [Burkeman's] thoughtful message: We can enjoy life more if we appreciate the present moment, stay in touch with our deeper selves, and nurture our connections with people and the natural world." - AudioFile Magazine "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." -Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we're deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and "life hacks" to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on "getting everything done," Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we've made as individuals and as a society-and that we could do things differently. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

650.1/1

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not applicable

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not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by the author

Target audience

adult

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not applicable