I’ve blogged before about Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. This wonderful nonfiction book is targeted at those of you who – like me – are productivity geeks. However, unlike other time management authors, Burkeman recommends you surrender to the fact that you cannot get everything done and that traditional time management strategies, which are supposed to help you multitask, will fail and cause anxiety. He recommends recognizing that our lives are finite and that we make choices about our time accordingly.
Burkeman was recently interviewed by Ezra Klein, and I strongly recommend listening to their conversation, especially now, at the beginning of the new year. I found it extremely affecting.
With regard to the book’s title, four thousand weeks is how much time the average human has on this earth.
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