{"product_id":"four-thousand-weeks-time-management-for-mortals","title":"Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNobody 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing 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,\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eintroduces 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Burkeman, Oliver\u003cbr\u003eFormat: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e288 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAugust 10, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thryft","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44134888472857,"sku":"HD69.T54","price":30.73,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":44134888505625,"sku":"HD69.T55","price":24.58,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":44134888538393,"sku":"HD69.T56","price":19.66,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":44134888571161,"sku":"HD69.T57","price":15.73,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":44134888603929,"sku":"HD69.T58","price":12.58,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/products\/photo_2022-11-25_12-18-51.jpg?v=1717739053","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/four-thousand-weeks-time-management-for-mortals","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}