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Four Thousand Weeks : Time Management for Mortals (9780374715243)

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by Burkeman, Oliver


  Renaissance

  rest and leisure; aversion to; hobbies in; instrumental attitude toward; in medieval times; productivity and; sabbath and

  Richards, E. G.

  Right To Be Lazy, The (Lafargue)

  Rilke, Rainer Maria

  Rinaldi, Karen

  Road Less Traveled, The (Peck)

  Roberts, Jennifer

  Robinson, Marilynne

  rocks in the jar parable

  Rohr, Richard

  Rosa, Hartmut

  Rosetta Stone

  routine

  Royal Caribbean Cruises

  running

  sabbath

  Sabbath as Resistance (Brueggemann)

  Salcedo, Mario

  saying no

  Scarry, Richard

  schedules; community and; five-day week; freedom and; on-demand

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  scientific management

  Seamless

  second-order changes

  security

  Seneca

  serializing

  Sermon on the Mount

  Setiya, Kieran

  settling

  sex life

  Shabbat elevator

  Shawopa, Geshe

  Shulevitz, Judith

  Silicon Valley

  singing

  Sisyphus

  skill acquisition and experience

  smartphones

  Social Acceleration (Rosa)

  social media; charitable causes and; Facebook; Twitter

  Soviet Union

  speed addiction

  spontaneity

  Stalin, Joseph

  standards, impossible

  Starbucks

  Steel, Danielle

  Stewart, Rod

  Stoppard, Tom

  surfing

  Sweden

  Sydney Opera House

  synchronization; loss of; of movement; of singing; of vacations

  Take Back Your Time

  Tao Te Ching

  task orientation

  Taylor, Frederick Winslow

  Taylor, Steve

  Teach Yourself to Live (Du Cann)

  Technics and Civilization (Mumford)

  technology; boring and single-purpose; impatience and

  telephone networks

  telic activities

  This Life (Hägglund)

  Tift, Bruce

  time: abstract idea of; being; borrowed; as budget good; clocks and; as conveyor belt; deep (timelessness); eternity; finite, see finitude; having or getting; hoarding versus sharing; instrumental relationship to; letting it use you; life as separate from; mastery over; medieval people and; modern way of thinking about; as network good; as resource; social regulation of; speeding up as one ages; using; wasting; work expanding to fill; “wrongness” in use of

  Time and Free Will (Bergson)

  time management systems; life hacks; most important project in; protecting your time in; see also productivity

  to-do lists; open, closed, and “on hold”

  totalitarian movements

  Tracy, Brian, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

  travel

  Trejo-Mathys, Jonathan

  Tuktoyaktuk

  Twelve Steps

  Twitter

  Uber

  underachievement, strategic

  unemployment

  universe, indifference of

  U.S. Catholic

  US Travel Association

  vacations

  van Gogh, Vincent

  variable rewards

  von Franz, Marie-Louise

  waiting in line

  walking

  watermelon video

  Watson, David

  Watts, Alan

  wealth

  Weber, Max

  weekends

  Wilson, Timothy

  Wolfe, Thomas

  work; career; daily time boundaries for; decisions about; as distraction; expansion of, to fill available time; impossible standards and; Industrial Revolution and; in medieval times; overwork; pay for; productivity at; rest and; settling in; weekends and; work-life balance; workplace policies

  works in progress, limiting

  workweek, five-day

  World as Will and Idea, The (Schopenhauer)

  World Athletics Championships

  World War II

  worry and anxiety about the future

  writing

  Wu, Tim

  Yorkshire Dales

  Young, Shinzen (Steve)

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)

  ALSO BY OLIVER BURKEMAN

  The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking

  Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

  A Note About the Author

  Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking and an award-winning feature writer for The Guardian, where he wrote a long-running weekly column on psychology, “This Column Will Change Your Life.” His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychologies, and New Philosopher. He lives in New York City. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraphs

  Introduction: In the Long Run, We’re All Dead

  Part I: Choosing to Choose

    1.     The Limit-Embracing Life

    2.     The Efficiency Trap

    3.     Facing Finitude

    4.     Becoming a Better Procrastinator

    5.     The Watermelon Problem

    6.     The Intimate Interrupter

  Part II: Beyond Control

    7.     We Never Really Have Time

    8.     You Are Here

    9.     Rediscovering Rest

  10.     The Impatience Spiral

  11.     Staying on the Bus

  12.     The Loneliness of the Digital Nomad

  13.     Cosmic Insignificance Therapy

  14.     The Human Disease

  Afterword: Beyond Hope

  Appendix: Ten Tools for Embracing Your Finitude

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  Also by Oliver Burkeman

  A Note About the Author

  Copyright

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