The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and eff...
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.
Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the newspaper - The Guardian) and writer.
Early life and education
Educated at Huntington School, York, he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994.
Career
Between 2006 and 2020 Burkeman wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life. He has reported from London, Washington and New York. He has his own blog. His published books are listed below.
Works
HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, 2011 (London: Canongate Books), ISBN 978-0-85786-025-5
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, 2012 (London: Faber & Faber), ISBN 9780865479418
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, 2021 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN 9780374159122
Recognition
Burkeman was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006. He won the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award. In 2015 he won the FPA's Science Story of the Year for a piece on the mystery of consciousness.
目录
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Part 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
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Part 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
Part 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
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Life is nothing but the sum of our choices.
In making every decision we comit our time, energy and thus part of our life. There are numerous criteria as to what constitutes a good life. Such discussio...Life is nothing but the sum of our choices.
In making every decision we comit our time, energy and thus part of our life. There are numerous criteria as to what constitutes a good life. Such discussion is and should be personal. For me, I am just a curious man wanting to know more about this world and to live a life of intellectual fulfillment. (展开)
最近正在学着如何拒绝，碰巧看到了 Youtube 博主推荐这本书，觉得很认同其中的观点，便找来火速翻阅了。西方的畅销书通病就是废话多，为了验证自己的观点，大量举例子，旁征博引。其实全书的核心观点就是：不要相信现代主流观点盛行的时间管理大师、高效法则，深知人的有限性，你这辈子不可能做所有你想做的事，每一次行动前都要有取舍，有舍才能有得。因此与其纠结时间管理法则，不如先 figure out 自己的 ...最近正在学着如何拒绝，碰巧看到了 Youtube 博主推荐这本书，觉得很认同其中的观点，便找来火速翻阅了。西方的畅销书通病就是废话多，为了验证自己的观点，大量举例子，旁征博引。其实全书的核心观点就是：不要相信现代主流观点盛行的时间管理大师、高效法则，深知人的有限性，你这辈子不可能做所有你想做的事，每一次行动前都要有取舍，有舍才能有得。因此与其纠结时间管理法则，不如先 figure out 自己的 goal，不论是社交还是工作，都依照目标进行抉择，不要 FOMO（Fear of missing out）. Don't try to be godlike, admit that you're human, and human can't do everything. (展开)
熬过这本书开头的磨磨叽叽，我发现它变得很有道理，也不失温情。 人与时间之间痛苦关系的根源，在于无法正视现实：人在地球上的时间是有限的。时间不够用，远远不够。 当这一现实被真正接受之后，你会听到自己在问一个振聋发聩的问题，why the fuck am i doing this shit? 现在...
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3 有用 秋子 2022-01-01 16:00:11
我们需要的不是更多时间管理的技巧，而是深刻地直视我们的心理状态，与生活、与工作的关系。
1 有用 Chelsea📚 2022-11-17 09:39:17 浙江
作者可能不是写作能力最出众的，主题也不是最新颖的，但在时间管理书中，这本最贴近真实生活。它甚至不教你快马加鞭，如何在有限生命中挤进更多项目，真是一股清流。
5 有用 寒鸦 2022-02-08 23:12:35
Life is nothing but the sum of our choices. In making every decision we comit our time, energy and thus part of our life. There are numerous criteria as to what constitutes a good life. Such discussio... Life is nothing but the sum of our choices. In making every decision we comit our time, energy and thus part of our life. There are numerous criteria as to what constitutes a good life. Such discussion is and should be personal. For me, I am just a curious man wanting to know more about this world and to live a life of intellectual fulfillment. (展开)
0 有用 新地 2022-03-26 16:15:25
Feeling around an important idea but has yet gotten to the core
47 有用 Isala 2022-03-12 16:07:32
最近正在学着如何拒绝，碰巧看到了 Youtube 博主推荐这本书，觉得很认同其中的观点，便找来火速翻阅了。西方的畅销书通病就是废话多，为了验证自己的观点，大量举例子，旁征博引。其实全书的核心观点就是：不要相信现代主流观点盛行的时间管理大师、高效法则，深知人的有限性，你这辈子不可能做所有你想做的事，每一次行动前都要有取舍，有舍才能有得。因此与其纠结时间管理法则，不如先 figure out 自己的 ... 最近正在学着如何拒绝，碰巧看到了 Youtube 博主推荐这本书，觉得很认同其中的观点，便找来火速翻阅了。西方的畅销书通病就是废话多，为了验证自己的观点，大量举例子，旁征博引。其实全书的核心观点就是：不要相信现代主流观点盛行的时间管理大师、高效法则，深知人的有限性，你这辈子不可能做所有你想做的事，每一次行动前都要有取舍，有舍才能有得。因此与其纠结时间管理法则，不如先 figure out 自己的 goal，不论是社交还是工作，都依照目标进行抉择，不要 FOMO（Fear of missing out）. Don't try to be godlike, admit that you're human, and human can't do everything. (展开)