Oliver Burkeman and Rob Leworthy
Four Thousand Weeks
Time and How to Use It
Talks at Google, 2021
Aperçu
Slow down and scale back to relieve stress and live a more meaningful life.
Recommendation
Time is finite, but the demands on individuals’ time have accelerated to the point where people are experiencing burnout in their 20s. Journalist Oliver Burkeman offers relief in the form of acceptance: If you recognize your limits and scale back, you might just find you have more energy and focus. In conversation with Rob Leworthy, a strategy and operations manager at Google, Burkeman discusses the power of limits and offers advice on how to build meaning into your life. Anyone who finds that there aren’t enough hours in the day will benefit from Burkeman’s thesis.
Summary
About the Speakers
Journalist Oliver Burkeman writes on productivity, mortality, the power of limits and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment. Rob Leworthy is a strategy and operations manager at Google.
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