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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman.

Time management for mortals (portion title)
4000 weeks (other title)
Burkeman, Oliver, (author.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374159122
  • ISBN: 0374159122
  • Physical Description: x, 271 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 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.
Subject: Time management.
Happiness.

Available copies

  • 10 of 25 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries.

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  • 1 current hold with 25 total copies.
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Selma Public Library 650.1 Burkeman (Text) 38950611551161 Adult New Nonfiction Reshelving -