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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
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Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

You will never get everything done, because there is infinitely more to do than time to do it. Accepting that is where a real life starts.

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About this episode

What comes to mind when you think about living to around 80 years old, or 4,000 weeks? In today's episode, let's delve into the book "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman, which challenges our ideas about productivity, time, and what it truly means to live a meaningful life!

Key takeaways

  1. 1

    Productivity is a trap: clearing the list only makes room for more list.

  2. 2

    Choosing means losing, and the losses are what make the choice meaningful.

  3. 3

    Pay yourself first with time, before the world takes its share.

Try this tonight

Write down what you would stop doing if you accepted you cannot do everything. Then stop one of them this week.

Journal prompt

“If I only have four thousand weeks, what is worth one of them?”

Write about it