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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals (Record no. 8635)

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LC control number 2021005693
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International Standard Book Number 9780374159122
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Qualifying information Hardback
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Transcribing agency ASM
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Classification number HD69.T54 B875 2021
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Personal name Oliver Burkeman
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Title Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals
Statement of responsibility, etc. Oliver Burkeman
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
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Extent 271 pages
Other physical details illustrations
Dimensions 22 cm
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Summary, etc. The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our 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 fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of 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―and that we could do things differently.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Time management, Happiness.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Academy of Sciences Malaysia Academy of Sciences Malaysia 09/18/2025   ASMLIB002258-01 09/18/2025 1 09/18/2025 Books
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Academy of Sciences Malaysia Academy of Sciences Malaysia 09/18/2025   ASMLIB002258-02 09/18/2025 2 09/18/2025 Books