Oliver Burkeman. Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals. Allen Lane Canada. Toronto: 2021.
Now is all you ever get.
Fascinating exploration of meaning to apply when managing our time. Author includes an appendix summarizing "10 tools for embracing your finitude".
Book includes
- 5 questions to ask about how you are currently spending your time
- 10 tools for embracing your finitude
- afterword on getting doing
Interview:
Interesting ideas shared:
- Attention is life
- We are time
- Fika
- Atelic and telic activities
- Possibility shock
- Cosmic insignificance therapy
- Patience principles
- Strategic underachievement
- Open and closed to-do lists
- Done list
- Fixed-volume productivity and serializing [appear familiar?]
- Novelty in the mundane
- Let things be as they are
William James, quoted in book:
As each passing year converts... experience into automatic routing, the days and weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse