Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote- Happiness for People
Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, and for many years wrote a
popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, 'This Column
Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.
He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity,
mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in
an age of bewilderment.
oliverburkeman.com
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.
*The Times*
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
*Observer*
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
*Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method*
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
*Evening Standard*
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*
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