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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 todo 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 dally struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
This was really good with great insights and humour used to study how we use our time ineffectively. That we are all guilty of pushing ourselves to get our to do’s done when in the long run, it’s not really that important. Many ‘self help’ books give you things to do to improve your life that are not sustainable by pushing you to achieve more in less time. This is different because it doesn’t do that. Burkeman tries to get you to not care so much about achieving everything and to go after what is more important. I really enjoyed this and I will be trying to put some of the points into use. I will be reading more of Burkeman’s books in the future.
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