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Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

by Oliver Burkeman

7 min read

With an average life span of 80 years, you only have less than 4,000 weeks to live your life from when you start making sense of the world around you.

Now:

You can spend your entire life working like a machine and then get disposed of.

Or, you can understand the value of your time on this planet and focus on things that matter to you.

Here are some tips that’ll help you embrace a life of meaning:

Your Time is Limited

We live in a hustle-focused world that promotes constant productivity.

How to squeeze in a few more work out of your days.

How to be more productive.

It’s as if time is like a series of boxes on a conveyor belt that we need to keep filling throughout the day.

And the more of these boxes we try to fill in our days, the more overwhelmed we get.

Ever had the feeling that you were busy every minute of your day but still felt you didn’t achieve anything worthwhile?