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Four Thousand Weeks: Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks: Oliver Burkeman
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36 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Hello! For the final episode in our Existential Cheerful Summer series we’re talking to Oliver Burkeman: author, journalist and self-proclaimed ‘reformed productivity geek’ for the Guardian. We talk to him about his new book Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It which is all about why it’s empowering for us to confront our ‘finitude,’ i.e. the limited amount of time we are on this planet for. Why are we obsessed with getting everything done? Why is our modern ‘task-oriented’ relationship with time so unhelpful? And what can we learn from Rob Stewart’s love of model railways?Buy Four Thousand Weeks hereFollow Oliver on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Aug 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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