Business Book Club Recommendation - A Quick Take: 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Overview of the book:
Time is all important - as is the way we perceive and manage it.
In the interest of time, we have found an 8-minute illustrated guide to the full book by Oliver Burkeman, which weโd suggest watching.
Humans have an average of 4000 weeks on planet Earth. And yet, weโre still trying to skew time and โmakeโ more of it. You cannot โmakeโ more time. You can only use what you have, more wisely.
So what if you stopped trying to do everything? In this book, Oliver helps us crawl out of long-suffering existential overwhelm.
Weโre obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes and the sense that our attention spans are shriveling. But to find peace of mind, we must confront the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks.
This book is all about how to avoid the efficiency-trap, facing finitude and rediscovering rest - and what rest really looks like / feels like to you.
The core message is a refreshing take on self- improvement and definitely feeds into the idea of โyou are enoughโ and โgood enoughโ is plenty. And, of course, depending on your personality type everyone might get something different from reading this book.
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Even President Obama found the time to go for a run when he was in office. Can you say that you have less time, and more responsibility than Obama?
(Weโre aware of the caveat of the help that Obama has, to do everything that he does, but just run with the metaphor.)
Similarly to some of our exercises from YEAR OF YES, this session from 4000 WEEKS is all about โneeds mustโ and what actually HAS to get done versus what youโd LIKE to get done.
Weโre all discovering the good (and not so good) uses of AI - but for this exercise, weโre encouraging you to rely on the tool to provide a structure FOR you. You might love the suggestions.
Hereโs Lauraโs final review of the book - with a core message worth memorising.
