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  • Four Thousand Weeks

  • Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
  • Written by: Oliver Burkeman
  • Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (240 ratings)

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Four Thousand Weeks

Written by: Oliver Burkeman
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Publisher's Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

The instant Sunday Times best seller.

A Financial Times, Guardian and Observer Book of the Year.

One of the Daily Telegraph's 75 Best Books of 2021.

What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts?

We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about 4,000 weeks.

Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of the challenge. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' it introduces listeners to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny.

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your 4,000 weeks count.

©2021 Oliver Burkeman (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in.... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living." (Emma Gannon)

"A much-needed reality check on our culture's crazy assumptions around work, productivity and living a meaningful life." (Mark Manson, best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck)

"Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful, actually genuinely useful." (Marian Keyes)

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A complete new perspective to your life. Engaging and transcending thoughts simplified.

A book everyone should read/listen. It’s enlightening and will make you think. I thank the author for sharing such an amazing work with the world. Much needed.

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Genuine Research and Original Thinking.

This is what genuine Research and Original Thinking looks like. Respect to the author for writing such an amazing book.

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Brilliant!

A must for everyone who can’t live in present, who are anxious, who are on hamster wheel of being productive, who are full of self doubts, which I v believe makes it 7 billion plus audience 😎… Listen at 0.9x speed to really saviour the experience!

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Pick your battles

It's a good book to reinforce the perspective of our limited lifetime. The gist of it, one will never have time to do or achieve all the things one wants or society expects, so pick your battles accordingly and then focus on those.

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A refreshing one!

A refreshing listen from all the other books out there on time management and productivity. The suggestions offered are not only related to daily tasks, but our life spans itself. Recommend everyone to listen to it atleast once. I plan to listen to it again soon!

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Loved it to the core...I am at Peace

we all are hopeless yet that is liberating news ...kind of anti productivity book but that is because it reveals hard truth ...

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Creative Negligence, Finitude and other concepts

It is a hard hitting book that brings home the point on our infinitely small life duration. loved the concepts of "Finitude".

Loved the 14 principles shared at the end of all .the chapters.

I went through this short, crisp and entertaining book on Audibles. Will definitely be ordering hard copies of the same for myself and for gifting to some dear ones.

Thanks a lot to the author for such thought providing book. Absolutely 💯!




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Changed My Perspective

A deeply compelling argument for spending time with what matters the most - our own selves.

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Wonderful and very well worth the time

Excellent material. It is thought provoking, and takes zen like approach on time.
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Very well organized content

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Book to reread every couple of months

Love to come back to this book often. It's more about life management than time management.

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