Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals

Time management for mortals (portion title)
4000 weeks (other title)

Summary: "A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780374159122
ISBN: 0374159122
Physical Description: print
x, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: In the long run, we're all dead -- Part I: Choosing to choose -- The lmit-embracing life -- The efficiency trap -- Facing finitude -- Becoming a better procrastinator -- The watermelon problem -- The intimate interrupter -- Part II: Beyond control -- We never really have time -- You are here -- Rediscovering rest -- The impatience spiral -- Staying on the bus -- The loneliness of the digital nomad -- Cosmic insignificance therapy -- The human disease -- Afterword: beyond hope.