Oliver Burkeman
Autor/a de Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Oliver Burkeman
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012) 1,020 exemplars, 41 ressenyes
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts (2024) 5 exemplars
Bestseller_ (Paperback) Oliver Burkeman 4 exemplars
The Power of Negative Thinking: And How It Can Be a Powerful Route to Joy, Success and Satisfaction (2019) 2 exemplars
Four Thousand Weeks [Hardcover], The Art of the Good Life, The Little Book Of Management Bollocks, Business Adventures… (2022) 1 exemplars
(Paperback) 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1975
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Educació
- University of Cambridge
- Professions
- Journalist
- Agent
- Tina Bennett (Bennett Literary)
- Biografia breu
- Oliver Burkeman by Jeff Mikkelson
Oliver Burkeman is a writer for The Guardian based in Brooklyn, New York. His latest book, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (Canongate 2013), explores the upsides of negativity, uncertainty, failure and imperfection. Each week in The Guardian he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness. His is also the author of HELP! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (Canongate, 2011).
http://www.theschooloflife.com/about-...
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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals de Oliver Burkeman
An amazing balance to other time management books, that proposes balance, focus, and a clear perspective.
[3.25] Burkeman has inspired me to have a bit of fun with friends. The author would occasionally ask people to guess — without doing any lofty mental math — roughly how many weeks we mortals have on this earth. Many would grossly overestimate the number. I’m guessing many folks in my circles will do the same — because I certainly would have never guessed that our average lifespans amount to only 4,000 weeks.
The book’s underlying message is clear: our days — or weeks in this case — are numbered and we should make every effort to improve “our troubled relationship with time.” It is well-written, engaging and includes a number of “news-you-can-use” nuggets. But having overdosed on books that embrace similar themes (a dozen or so within the past decade), many of the points have been explored in previous works — albeit not with Burkeman’s counterintuitive approaches to issues such as grappling with procrastination or “wasting time.”
“Four Thousand Weeks” waxes a tad too philosophical and metaphysical too often for my tastes, something the author even seems to admit in a couple spots. Having said that, Burkeman provides numerous insights, including a cautionary note about “efficiency traps” (the more work we get done, the more likely it is that we will have more work assigned to us and/or feel that we can get done.)
He also reminds us that we’re on borrowed time (call it human “finitude.”) Hence, we should practice embracing a mindset that allows us to appreciate even the not-so-enjoyable twists in life. One anecdote involves a man who, after one of his friends died suddenly, didn’t find himself clenching his fists in a traffic tieup, but found himself thankful that he was in that traffic jam in the first place. After all, even the unpleasant tasks absorb time we never had any right to expect. True, these aren’t revelatory insights. But they serve as important reminders. Perhaps the most valuable takeaway for me involved the author’s suggestion that we harness patience to help solve daily dilemmas. Don’t sweat it if it takes a bit of time to carefully observe, analyze and come up with possible fixes. I used his mantra one day later when the antiquated lawn mower at my cottage was giving me problems. By spending several additional minutes patiently examining the contraption, I solved the minor problem. It reinforced one of the author’s principles — that we shouldn’t try to “use” time, but rather allow time to use us.… (més)
The book’s underlying message is clear: our days — or weeks in this case — are numbered and we should make every effort to improve “our troubled relationship with time.” It is well-written, engaging and includes a number of “news-you-can-use” nuggets. But having overdosed on books that embrace similar themes (a dozen or so within the past decade), many of the points have been explored in previous works — albeit not with Burkeman’s counterintuitive approaches to issues such as grappling with procrastination or “wasting time.”
“Four Thousand Weeks” waxes a tad too philosophical and metaphysical too often for my tastes, something the author even seems to admit in a couple spots. Having said that, Burkeman provides numerous insights, including a cautionary note about “efficiency traps” (the more work we get done, the more likely it is that we will have more work assigned to us and/or feel that we can get done.)
He also reminds us that we’re on borrowed time (call it human “finitude.”) Hence, we should practice embracing a mindset that allows us to appreciate even the not-so-enjoyable twists in life. One anecdote involves a man who, after one of his friends died suddenly, didn’t find himself clenching his fists in a traffic tieup, but found himself thankful that he was in that traffic jam in the first place. After all, even the unpleasant tasks absorb time we never had any right to expect. True, these aren’t revelatory insights. But they serve as important reminders. Perhaps the most valuable takeaway for me involved the author’s suggestion that we harness patience to help solve daily dilemmas. Don’t sweat it if it takes a bit of time to carefully observe, analyze and come up with possible fixes. I used his mantra one day later when the antiquated lawn mower at my cottage was giving me problems. By spending several additional minutes patiently examining the contraption, I solved the minor problem. It reinforced one of the author’s principles — that we shouldn’t try to “use” time, but rather allow time to use us.… (més)
"If you accept that the universe is uncontrollable, you're going to be a lot less anxious." This is written in the book. It is also the attitude of many people throughout the world, most of them outside the U.S. Many people in Spain, for instance, have this attitude. I'm working on it. It's not the only path towards happiness, but it's one. Another is an analysis of what happiness actually is. I liked this practical, well-written, no-nonsense, book.
I've been experiencing a lot of existential angst of late. Thinking about my own mortality, my limited time on this earth, my desire to make an impact and leave behind a legacy... all of this has been causing me a ton of anxiety. So I picked up Four Thousand Weeks hoping to find a new way of thinking about how to make the most of the time I have left.
While Burkeman does a stellar job of addressing our obsession with productivity from a philosophical and psychological standpoint, the book doesn't offer as much practical advice as I was hoping for. With 13 pages of notes and an 8-page index, Four Thousand Weeks is obviously well-researched. Yet, as I read, what little advice I found only rehashed the stuff I'd come across in every other time management book: "do the important things first," "be okay with not being great at everything," "do the next right thing," etc.
That's not to say Burkeman's book doesn't have merit. Far from it. But for all of Burkeman's claims that this is a different kind of time management book, in the end, it sits comfortably alongside "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Mark Manson and "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.
Reading Four Thousand Weeks won't revolutionize your daily life, but it could help you reconsider what's truly worth your time.… (més)
While Burkeman does a stellar job of addressing our obsession with productivity from a philosophical and psychological standpoint, the book doesn't offer as much practical advice as I was hoping for. With 13 pages of notes and an 8-page index, Four Thousand Weeks is obviously well-researched. Yet, as I read, what little advice I found only rehashed the stuff I'd come across in every other time management book: "do the important things first," "be okay with not being great at everything," "do the next right thing," etc.
That's not to say Burkeman's book doesn't have merit. Far from it. But for all of Burkeman's claims that this is a different kind of time management book, in the end, it sits comfortably alongside "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Mark Manson and "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.
Reading Four Thousand Weeks won't revolutionize your daily life, but it could help you reconsider what's truly worth your time.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 15
- Membres
- 2,734
- Popularitat
- #9,397
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 98
- ISBN
- 82
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 2
