TY - BOOK AU - Burkeman,Oliver TI - Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals SN - 0374159122 AV - HD69 .T54 B875 2021 U1 - 650.1/1 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Happiness KW - Time management N1 - Includes index; Introduction: In the long run, we're all dead -- Part I: Choosing to choose. The limit-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 the past ; The impatience spiral ; Staying on the bus ; The loneliness of the digital nomad ; Cosmic insignificance therapy ; The human disease -- Afterword: Beyond hope -- Appendix: Ten tools for embracing your finitude N2 - "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"-- ER -