Four thousand weeks. Time management for mortals

The New York Times, the bestseller The Sunday Times, the choice of the editors of Amazon: “The Best Book in the Non-Fixh section” (more than 6,200 reviews on Amazon)
The author recalls that the duration of our lives is approximately 4,000 weeks. He rejects modern obsession with everything and introduces the instruments of building a meaningful and happy life by accepting, and not denying our restrictions
A new way of thinking that allows you to look at your workload from a different angle. Based on the ideas of ancient and modern philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers
gives ideas that will help you rejoice more and less strain
Guru of time management talk about concentration secrets that will allow the balance between work and personal life, perform the maximum tasks in the shortest possible time, stay at the peak of productivity, work in the way non-stop. But even if we follow their advice, we risk burning if there are too many things, and get bored when there are too few. The truth is that the day when you scrap work mail will never come, and your list of things is actually an endless conveyor. Oliver Berkman offers to put him aside and ask yourself: do you really want to spend the 4000 weeks of life on a joyless struggle for productivity? His book is a world bestseller who changes our idea of ​​the time of our life and how to spend it in the best way. After reading it, you can accept the reality as it is, you will understand what you want to spend time on, and at the same time get rid of the obsession with constant employment and fear of lost benefit.

About the author

Berkman Oliver - a British journalist and writer, the author of The Guardian, an expert on personal efficiency, the winner of the Young Journalist Award, entered the short list of the Orwell Prize.
Quotes

Time behaves like a stubborn baby: the more you are trying to control and subordinate him to your rules, the less it lends itself to control.

“Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals” is another book on how to use our time in the best way. But it is based on the belief that the time management that we know has failed with a bang and it is not worth pretending that it was not so. The trouble is not that you can’t cope with the flow of letters, just the attempts to “cope” themselves generate more emails.

once on Friday, in April 2016, when a tense presidential race in America gained new revolutions, and more than 30 armed conflicts occurred around the world, about 3 million people spent part of the day, observing the two correspondents from Buzzfeed pulled gum on the watermelon. "

"If we want to properly dispose of our 4000 weeks, the ability to do nothing is indispensable.

"The average life expectancy of a person is absurd, terrifying, offensive. But this is not a reason for eternal despair or for panic, to which eternal vain attempts to maximize their limited time lead.