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Four thousand weeks : time and how to use it / Oliver Burkeman.

By: Burkeman, Oliver [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Vintage, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: x, 271 pages : 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784704001 (paperback).Subject(s): Time management | Happiness | Work-life balance | Well-being | Self-developmentDDC classification: 115
Contents:
Introduction: in the long run, we're all dead -- The limit-embracing life -- The efficiency trap -- Facing finitude -- Becoming a better procrastinator -- The watermelon problem -- The intimate interrupter -- We never really have time -- You are here --Rediscovering rest -- The impatience spiral -- Staying on the bus -- The loneliness of the digital nomad -- Cosmic insignificance therapy -- The human disease -- Afterword: beyond hope.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Wellbeing 115 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Wellbeing Collection - Self-development 00220401
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?

**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**

Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny.

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Discover how to make your four thousand weeks count in 2026.

'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' Emma Gannon

'Every sentence is riven with gold' Chris Evans

'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' Marian Keyes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: in the long run, we're all dead -- The limit-embracing life -- The efficiency trap -- Facing finitude -- Becoming a better procrastinator -- The watermelon problem -- The intimate interrupter -- We never really have time -- You are here --Rediscovering rest -- The impatience spiral -- Staying on the bus -- The loneliness of the digital nomad -- Cosmic insignificance therapy -- The human disease -- Afterword: beyond hope.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.

oliverburkeman.com