How Many Weeks Do You Have Left to Live? (Don’t Read if You’re Easily Shocked)
But this book will also make you feel better about how you use them
Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman, is one of those books that made time slow riiight down while I was reading it.
It made a pretty big impression on me, even causing me to change the way I do things (quite drastically, in fact) when it comes to managing my time.
For one thing, I no longer stress about getting everything done. Because, as Oliver points out in the point, we will never, ever reach a point where everything will be done!
So we may as well give up.
Not “give up” as in declare defeat (not really), but give up as in release ourselves from unrealistic expectations and allow us to endow our moments with more meaning simply because this is what we’ve chosen to do with them, when instead we could have chosen something completely different.
Four Thousand Weeks is absolutely one of my favorite books of all time, and so I’ve shared my complete breakdown (along with my best notes and takeaways) here with you in this article.
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