Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Audiobook
Narrator: Oliver Burkeman
Listening Time: 5 Hours, 54 Minutes, 04 Seconds
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: August 20, 2021
290 Pages
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Release Date: August 10, 2021
Nonfiction, Productivity, Time Management, Business, Self-Improvement
Did you know the average life span of 80 years equals to 4000 weeks? That is a drop in the bucket. The author discusses the ways people procrastinate and waste precious time. This is a book on productivity, but it is so much more. He points out how people try to master time which leads to frustration. Also, when people say they will have more time after a specific event (retire, kids move out of the house, etc.), which does not really happen. Time matters now since it all we get. How prophetic.
There are five questions at the end of the book everyone should ask themselves. The appendix has ten additional tips. There are two tips that really resonate with me. The first is to pick which task to fail. The second is to look at what you have already completed and be proud. If you struggle with time management, this is an excellent book. It may cause you to make changes in the way you view time.
