FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS
What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts?
We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. 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.
Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of the challenge. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' it introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. And it shows how 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. Its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview.
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. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Edad: adultos
BURKEMAN OLIVER
Oliver Burkeman es un escritor y periodista británico. Su trabajo periodístico ha sido reconocido en varias ocasiones: fue nominado al Premio Orwell en 2006 y nombrado Joven Periodista del Año por The Foreign Press Association. Es autor de El antídoto: felicidad para gente que no soporta el pensamiento positivo y Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, además de la popular columna semanal de psicología de The Guardian «This Column Will Change Your Life», en la que trata todo tipo de cuestiones relacionadas con el mundo de la psicología, la filosofía y la salud mental, entre otros. Trabajó desde Londres, Washington y Nueva York, donde vive actualmente.
