Unabridged Audiobook
 Four thousand weeks is the average number of weeks we get (if we take 75 to be the average age that people live to). My take home from this book is that there are a lot of productivity programs out there, but the long and the short of it is, that regardless of how productive you want to be, there isn’t really a point to it. The main aim is to enjoy the here and now. Projects that you work on will always take longer than anticipated regardless of how well you try and plan them. Small increments of work each day gets much more done than trying to do it all in once. People who take breaks at the same time, e.g. over weekends / holidays, are a lot less stressed, because you don’t feel guilty or stressed about not being at work while others work. I think that is why Christmas / December is just such a magical time in South Africa. I didn't enjoy the book as much as I would have liked to.
A good source of inspiration for all those tired with endless "Do more", "be more", "achieve more" pseudophilosophies. Author's ideas, albeit not revolutionary, are like a gust of fresh air in our times of stress and overachievement. It's a great reminder that maybe we should focus on something different, instead of always beating ourselves trying to squeezes increasingly more items into our daily schedules. It invited me to rethink the way I live and approach my life organization. For that I feel indeed thankful
This is the kind of book you can just read or listen with those services that give a 15 minutes summary of the whole thing. The narrative stays on the topic for a short while than starts shifting from the importance of the Shabbat, the carefully-to-be-taken philosophy of Heidegger because he was a German related to the Nazi party (he lived in Germany at that time...), the Swedish coffe time, the devaluation of the Soviet Union. It starts alright then it become the usual boring piece of product created just to be sold to the main streaming propagand. A total waste of time after going over the core of the topic.
The ideas in this book is a contemporary echo of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death - ideas worth considering and internalising. It was a treat to have the author read his own book.
Wonderful inspiring book. Full of good thoughts about how to spend your.
Brilliant way of looking at the whole lifestyle, not just time management.
Exceptional book. Worth relistening to once a year.
Really thought provoking
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