Oliver Burkeman
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Bestseller_ (Paperback) Oliver Burkeman 2 kappaletta
The Power of Negative Thinking: And How It Can Be a Powerful Route to Joy, Success and Satisfaction (2019) 1 kappale
Four Thousand Weeks [Hardcover], The Art of the Good Life, The Little Book Of Management Bollocks, Business Adventures… (2022) 1 kappale
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- 1975
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- UK
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- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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- London, England, UK
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Koulutus
- University of Cambridge
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- Tina Bennett (Bennett Literary)
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- Oliver Burkeman by Jeff Mikkelson
Oliver Burkeman is a writer for The Guardian based in Brooklyn, New York. His latest book, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (Canongate 2013), explores the upsides of negativity, uncertainty, failure and imperfection. Each week in The Guardian he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness. His is also the author of HELP! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (Canongate, 2011).
http://www.theschooloflife.com/about-...
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I'd recommend this one - talks a lot about how to spend your life, given you only have 4000 hours.
An alternative view of being productive and striving to do the most you can, in the time you have. Being efficient and effective is messy and a one size fits all rule based system usually won't last or work. Has some good ideas on what to focus on and what not to focus on.
I liked this well enough that I stopped to capture several ideas in my notebooks. See Principles of Patience, his Five Questions, and his Tools for Embracing Your Finitude.
I'm glad I read it.
I'm glad I read it.
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But the Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman kept getting mentions from like-minded post-productivity folks in my social media universe, so I decided to give it a whirl.
And I liked it.
This book is along the lines of some of my favorite time management books that have come out in recent years such as:
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Wintering by Katherine May
There are many things to think about from this book; in fact, I will read it one more time to take notes.
If you feel you don't have enough time to do everything you want (you don't), if you find yourself wondering why you and your friends don't have time to meet up (it is answered here), and you want to know the secret to time management (focus on few things, forget the rest), then you will find solace in this book.
One chapter I liked talked about having hobbies and how we've built this culture of turning hobbies into a side hustle or making them part of a larger unattainable goal and how it is OK to want to learn how to play guitar or build a model train city like Rod Stewart has and not feel guilty. For me, that is making virtual things in Conan Exiles, and now I don't feel bad that I spent 30 minutes reading a Garfield cartoon book.… (lisätietoja)