Four Thousand Weeks cover art

Four Thousand Weeks

Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

 Preview

Listen with Audible free trial

Free with 30-day trial
Prime logo New to Audible Prime Member exclusive:
2 credits with free trial
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Four Thousand Weeks

Written by: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Free with 30-day trial

₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹504.38

Buy Now for ₹504.38

What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?

**The Instant Sunday Times bestseller**

Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers 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. Discover how to make your four thousand weeks count in 2026.

'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

'Every sentence is riven with gold' Chris Evans

'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' Marian Keyes

© Oliver Burkeman 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Philosophy Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Self-Help Social Psychology & Interactions Society Stress Management Time Management
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Critic Reviews

This book is wonderful. Instead of offering new tips on how to cram more into your day, it questions why we feel the need to ... My favourite kind of book is this one ... it examines the human struggle with intelligence, wisdom, humour and humility. (Marianne Power)
Perfectly pitched somewhere between practical self-help book and philosophical quest ... as with all the best quests, its many pleasures don't require a fast-forward button, but happen along the way (Tim Adams)
Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in. Enjoy your life. Breathe out. Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living
A wonderfully honest book, Four Thousand Weeks is a much-needed reality check on our culture's crazy assumptions around work, productivity and living a meaningful life (Mark Manson, bestselling author of Everything is F*cked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck)
His book will challenge and amuse you. And it may even spur you on to change your life. At the very least reading it would be a good use of one of your four thousand weeks (Robbie Smith)
I loved this book - it's a celebration of all that is most human: a deep dive into the value and potency of our finitude. Where we might buckle under pressure and uncertainty, Oliver quietly restores our centre of gravity within. You'll emerge from his writing fortified by wonder (Derren Brown)
A beautiful, uplifting read. Reading Oliver Burkeman, I feel my shoulders relax and my mouth curl into a smile of admiration. Witty, modest and refreshingly sane (Robert Webb, author of How Not to Be a Boy)
Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and USEFUL, actually genuinely useful (Marian Keyes)
Oliver Burkeman provides an important and insightful reassessment of productivity. The drive to get more done can become an excuse to avoid figuring out what we actually want to accomplish. Only by confronting this latter question can we unlock a calmer, more meaningful, more resilient approach to organizing our time (Cal Newport, bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work)
We all know our time is limited. What we don't know - but what Oliver Burkeman is here to teach us - is that our control over that time is also limited. This profound (and often hilarious) book will prompt you to rethink your worship of efficiency, reject the cult of busyness, and reconfigure your life around what truly matters (Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human)
All stars
Most relevant
This has been the best audiobook I have listened to till now! I love all my previous books, about 48 now, but this one has stood out to be the best. Must listen ! And follow and be happy/content !!

Absolutely magnificent !!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Love to come back to this book often. It's more about life management than time management.

Book to reread every couple of months

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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!

A refreshing one!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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 💯!

Creative Negligence, Finitude and other concepts

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
as much as people might say that there's nothing new under the sun, it's also helpful to have someone recontextualize ancient wisdom in precisely the present moment; specifically the never-ending miasma of the covid 19 pandemic.

my thanks to the author. 🙏🏼

timely reimagining of old wisdom

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews