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Abandon hope all ye who enter here.Hope is a curse. It's putting your faith in something outside yourself, beyond the current moment. It's that future state where your inbox is empty, your tasks well and tightly under control and your time, at last, your own to fully direct towards what gives you joy. For the productivity minded among us, we live in a perpetual state of hope, inhabiting an imagined future where our lives are well and truly ordered and organized. We need to give up hope and simpl...
I identified with this author's addiction to productivity and appreciate his attempts to cultivate a more stoic attitude toward time. He wisely encourages us to embrace our finitude and to relinquish the complete control we think we have over our existence—and our to-do lists. All to the good. But I also found something deeply sad about this book, and I think it's that Burkeman can't seem to decide whether life is completely devoid of meaning or beautifully meaning-rich. Are the minutes, hours,
Really enjoyed this one and compared to other time management books, I really felt this one presented things in a new perspective— it’s not about becoming more productive, but mostly about accepting that we’ll never be able to do all the things, but instead doing only the things that matter or are an actual priority for you and your finite time in this world.Listened as an audiobook and works really well in this format too
Oliver Burkeman call himself a productivity geek. As he describes it, “you know how some people are passionate about bodybuilding or fashion, or rock climbing, or poetry? Productivity geeks are passionate about crossing items off their to-do lists. So it’s sort of the same, except infinitely sadder.” His newest book, Four Thousand Weeks, is like a self-help book designed to help recovering productivity geeks recognize the emotional and mental traps laid by other books like “Getting Things Done,”...
1. Could have been condensed into an article2. Just read Ecclesiastes or a stoic and you’ll get the point3. Had one good point: embrace what you’re doing and acknowledge that you won’t be able to do anything else in that moment.
Not like other time management books at all, more of a helpful memento mori drawing on philosophy and history. I liked it quite a bit and would get my own copy to remind myself of its contents as needed. Among other things - - The average human has 4000 weeks to live, but you could also step out the front door and die today, hey ho.- You’re never going to get everything done so stop trying. When you pick some stuff, you’re choosing it over some other stuff, deal with it. - We seek distraction du...
When I opened this book to begin reading, I wondered to myself, “Do I really need to read another book about time management?” I’ve already consumed vast amounts of information on the topic and there’s only so many ways you can manage a calendar. Turns out I didn’t have to answer this question, because this book isn’t really a book about time management advice in a traditional sense.The overall premise is that life is finite and we’re never going to have enough time to do all the things we want