You are waisting your time with time management

Four thousand weeks is a refreshing perspective on time management. I cannot say how much I loved this book. Myself and Brian O’Kane were once asked to write a book about work-life balance for entrepreneurs (we couldn’t), and it has always been a topic of interest. For me, it is like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic and starting from the wrong end. It starts with joy, passion and doing what you love. The story of the Mexican fisherman.

Four thousand weeks

“Four Thousand Weeks: Time and how to use it” starts with this sentence: In the Long Run, We’re All Dead. And follows with a perspective on how short life is. The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. If you make it to ninety, you will have had almost 4,700 weeks. But you could also drop dead tomorrow.

Time as a source of anxiety

The assumption that time is something we can possess or control is the unspoken premise of almost all our thinking about the future, our planning and goal-setting and worrying. So it’s a constant source of anxiety and agitation. The problem that time is you.

The question

The book questions why you should focus those 4700 weeks on being productive, managing your life, living on a conveyer belt, being busy, hacking life…