Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkeman, Oliver, author.

Contributor:

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time management.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

x, 271 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

4000 weeks

Time management for mortals

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

We are obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction. We are deluged with advice on becoming more productive, learn hacks to optimize our days. We rarely make the connection between our daily struggles and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use the time we are given. Burkeman rejects the futile modern fixation on "getting everything done" and instead introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude. He shows how many of the unhelpful ways we have come to think about time are actually choices we have made-- and that we could do things differently. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Choosing to Choose

1. The Limit-Embracing Life

2. The Efficiency Trap

3. Facing Finitude

4. Becoming a Better Procrastinator

5. The Watermelon Problem

6. The Intimate Interrupter

pt. II Beyond Control

7. We Never Really Have Time

8. You Are Here

9. Rediscovering Rest

10. The Impatience Spiral

11. Staying on the Bus

12. The Loneliness of the Digital Nomad

13. Cosmic Insignificance Therapy

14. The Human Disease.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780374159122

0374159122

OCLC:

1182580330