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.
作者简介
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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, Washi...
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)
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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0 有用 新地 2022-03-26 16:15:25
Feeling around an important idea but has yet gotten to the core
3 有用 呕吐少年 2022-05-17 22:35:45
毫无价值
5 有用 时光里的达尔文 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)
21 有用 Brook Ln 2022-04-05 11:10:42
本来是抱着怀疑去听的audiobook，但听完后却一次次地想起并因为书里的见解心情得到解脱。作者提醒我们生命有限，你的效率永远达不到预期，不如换个心态。我这几天一直想，在我有限的生命里我被置于此时此地，我也只能身处一时一地，所以远方的人我就是帮不到，而恰巧出现在我的生命范围里的人和事才是我有能力去关照的。想办法让身边的人生命变好一点点和去关注战争和疫情一样有意义。
1 有用 Ov's Pianist 2022-03-15 17:16:08
人的一辈子之后四千周，无论怎么过，都只有四千周。身边人最普遍的一个病就是焦虑，来自于理想中的未来自己和当下的差距。越努力的人，焦虑感反而越强。作者主张放下对未来的自己的执着，关注当下，只有生活本身才是生活的最重要内容。生产力系统和工具只会让自己没有道理变得越来越忙，选择才是最重要的技能，尤其这个时代。反时间管理，但又不是躺平。
0 有用 UE 2024-03-30 19:07:35 广东
读了让人安心。人生只有四千周，总是不能把所有想做的事情都做完的，那就放弃这样的希望，而是活在当下，做当下最需要做的事情。我们要学的是聪明地选择不做哪些事，并且对于不做这些事感到自洽，即更擅长拖延。现代人忙碌成瘾，以忙碌为荣，如果酒精成瘾，朋友们会劝你戒掉，然而速度成瘾，朋友们会夸你能干，效率高，你就更停不下来了。如今似乎闲暇时间不做点对未来有益的事情就是虚度。要享受闲暇时间，闲暇是一切的终点。书本... 读了让人安心。人生只有四千周，总是不能把所有想做的事情都做完的，那就放弃这样的希望，而是活在当下，做当下最需要做的事情。我们要学的是聪明地选择不做哪些事，并且对于不做这些事感到自洽，即更擅长拖延。现代人忙碌成瘾，以忙碌为荣，如果酒精成瘾，朋友们会劝你戒掉，然而速度成瘾，朋友们会夸你能干，效率高，你就更停不下来了。如今似乎闲暇时间不做点对未来有益的事情就是虚度。要享受闲暇时间，闲暇是一切的终点。书本还提到了《重来也不会好过现在》，难得我也看过，很欣喜。 (展开)
0 有用 朱依帆 2024-03-21 16:28:30 澳大利亚
字字珠矶。
0 有用 斯卡德鲁 2024-03-10 16:18:00 上海
don’t stake the meaning of your life on a future that is under no obligation to comply
0 有用 口口声声 2024-03-06 17:33:27 上海
被哈佛艺术史教授Jennifer Roberts推的这本书，但是真的不行。我很少在豆瓣上差评，但是这本书真的是无聊且没有用处。我秉持着一定要读完才读到现在，真的是浪费了时间，也让我考虑以后要不要一定要读完一本书。和Bill Bryson的书差太多了，一个是各种史料信手拈来，一个是到书的最后能够明显看出江郎才尽，只能不断重复形容词。两星中的一星是学了英语。
0 有用 Yuyu 2024-03-05 10:53:19 四川
Life altering