作者简介

Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the newspaper - The Guardian) and writer.
Early life and education
Educated at Huntington School, York, he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994.
Career
Between 2006 and 2020 Burkeman wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life. He has reported from London, Washington and New York. He has his own blog. His published books are listed below.
Works
HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, 2011 (London: Canongate Books), ISBN 978-0-85786-025-5
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, 2012 (London: Faber & Faber), ISBN 9780865479418
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, 2021 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN 9780374159122
Recognition
Burkeman was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006. He won the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award. In 2015 he won the FPA's Science Story of the Year for a piece on the mystery of consciousness.

内容简介

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody 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.

Drawing 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,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces 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.


Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British journalist (principally for the newspaper - The Guardian) and writer.

Early life and education

Educated at Huntington School, York, he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994.

Career

Between 2006 and 2020 Burkeman wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life. He has reported from London, Washi...

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  • 艾莉森王
    是一本好读的警醒书,虽然没有新知,有提醒11-14
  • 夏冰雹
    我们必须直面生命的有限,一个人再怎么多产高效,人生也就四千周左右,而且效率越高,事情越忙不完。例如,洗衣机和吸尘器的发明不仅没减轻家庭的家务劳动时间,反而增加了社会的清洁要求,打扫时间更长了;邮件和通讯软件的发明没有减少员工的沟通时间,反而让工作量成倍增加。我沿袭了我母亲家族工作狂的基因,不充实就没有安全感,我在媒体公司上班的时候,是最猛的新人,稿件频繁冲上报社流量榜单,而一般新人一次也没有。但效率越高,越被时间控制,毫无喘息余地。作为一种智慧生物,人最大的痛苦是,我们的野心和想象力远远超过我们的寿命,我们用永生的标准去要求生产力。忙碌其实是对生命有限性的逃避,毕竟做选择比埋头苦干更让人痛苦。人不需要日理万机,事情真的是永远忙不完的,再重要的事情,也要舍弃一些,把几件事情做好就不错了。01-28
  • 新地
    Feeling around an important idea but has yet gotten to the core03-26
  • Brook Ln
    本来是抱着怀疑去听的audiobook,但听完后却一次次地想起并因为书里的见解心情得到解脱。作者提醒我们生命有限,你的效率永远达不到预期,不如换个心态。我这几天一直想,在我有限的生命里我被置于此时此地,我也只能身处一时一地,所以远方的人我就是帮不到,而恰巧出现在我的生命范围里的人和事才是我有能力去关照的。想办法让身边的人生命变好一点点和去关注战争和疫情一样有意义。04-05
  • 时光里的达尔文
    Life is nothing but the sum of our choices.In making every decision we comit our time, energy and thus part of our life. There are numerous criteria as to what constitutes a good life. Such discussion is and should be personal. For me, I am just a curious man wanting to know more about this world and to live a life of intellectual fulfillment. 02-08

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