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Four thousand weeks time management for mortals
"A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life"-- We are obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distra...
| Main Author: | Burkeman, Oliver (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: In the long run, we're all dead
- Part I: Choosing to choose. The limit-embracing life ; The efficiency trap ; Facing finitude ; Becoming a better procrastinator ; The watermelon problem ; The intimate interrupter
- Part II: Beyond control. We never really have time ; You are here ; Rediscovering the past ; The impatience spiral ; Staying on the bus ; The loneliness of the digital nomad ; Cosmic insignificance therapy ; The human disease
- Afterword: Beyond hope
- Appendix: Ten tools for embracing your finitude.