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Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman.
We are obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction. We are deluged with advice on becoming more productive, learn hacks to optimize our days. We rarely make the connection between our daily struggles and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use the time we are given. Burkeman rejects the futile modern fixation on "getting everything done" and instead introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude. He shows how many of the unhelpful ways we have come to think about time are actually choices we have made-- and that we could do things differently. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374159122
- ISBN: 0374159122
- Physical Description: x, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 rest ; 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. |
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| Subject: | Time management. Happiness. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 650.11 B959f 2021 (Text) | 33126025264908 | Career Center | Checked out | 05/10/2024 |
| Erlanger Branch | 650.11 B959f 2021 (Text) | 33126025264890 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |