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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman.
"A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735232464 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Allen Lane, 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Happiness. Time management. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 650.11 Bur | 31681010245801 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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âThis is the most important book ever written about time management.âÂ
âAdam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife
What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts?
Nobody needs to be told there isnât enough time. Whether weâre starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as weâre planning a vacation, weâre obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. Weâre deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. 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 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 obsession with âgetting everything done,â Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways weâve come to think about time arenât inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices weâve made as individuals and as a societyâand that we can do things differently.
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
