A review by rosiecotton_dancing
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

I feel like this book was written for me. I decided to finally start unpacking my tenuous relationship with time, and this was the perfect, no-nonsense philosophy that I needed to hear. Burkeman’s perspective is a little limited and the ideas are sometimes contradictory, but the overall takeaways (that time is not a resource to have or manage or control, it is simply life itself, moment by moment; that our mortality means we are far more limited than we delude ourselves into being, and that accepting our limitations leads to a richer and more peaceful life) are really powerful. I especially appreciated the five questions posed at the end of the book; I’ll be chewing on them for a while.