Product Description
Four Thousand Weeks
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Format: Paperback
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?
**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**
Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny.
Embrace your limits. Change your life. Discover how to make your four thousand weeks count in 2026.
'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' — Emma Gannon
'Every sentence is riven with gold' — Chris Evans
'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' — Marian Keyes
About the Author
Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.
He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment. oliverburkeman.com
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