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Another incredible book
From Birth to death You've got about 4,000 weeks....
How many have you got left and
How are you going to use them?
I worked out how many I'd already spent. I wish I hadn't.
That's the premise of this week's book review:
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
It is an anti-productivity book, and it will annoy anyone who has built their life on output.
Which is most of us.
Three things in it that stopped me:
There is no bottom to the inbox.
Clear things faster and more arrives.
Build capacity and demand fills it.
The reward for keeping up is more to keep up with.
That "one big push and I'll finally be on top of it" weekend you keep planning?
It does not exist in nature.
Everyone settles.
The only question is whether you settled on purpose or by drift.
Decide what you are deliberately going to fail at, and write it down.
A priority you have not protected isn't one.
Stay on the bus.
Every bus out of Helsinki shares the same first few stops.
Get off because your work looks derivative, start again on a different route, and you'll spend your life at the station.
Mastery lives past the boring stops.
Almost nothing compounds inside eighteen months.
I retired at 46.
Within what felt like a fortnight every one of those freed-up weeks had quietly refilled.
In the review I'm honest about why, and about which years of my life were actually the worst ones.
They were not the years I was sofa-surfing and delivering pizzas.
Full review is in the classroom, all 14 lessons plus my take 👇
Then do the maths on your own weeks, and look at next week's diary and ask whether it deserves them.
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Another incredible book
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