Oliver Burkeman Concepts

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman · 9 Aug 2021 · 206pp · 68,757 words

ALSO BY OLIVER BURKEMAN The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done ALLEN LANE

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and the above publisher of this book. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION Title: Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals / Oliver Burkeman. Names: Burkeman, Oliver, author. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200318063 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200318152 | ISBN 9780735232464 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735232471 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Time management. Classification: LCC HD69.T54

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you did happen. —DOUGLAS HARDING What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured. —CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK Contents Cover Also by Oliver Burkeman Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Introduction: In the Long Run, We’re All Dead Part I: Choosing to Choose 1. The Limit-Embracing Life 2

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she would have read this book, but she would definitely have told everyone she met that I had written it. A Note About the Author Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking and an award-winning feature writer for The Guardian, where

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

by Oliver Burkeman · 1 Jul 2012 · 211pp · 69,380 words

Oliver Burkeman is a feature writer for the Guardian. He is winner of the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award, and has been

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, where he currently lives. oliverburkeman.com textpublishing.com.au oliverburkeman.com The Text Publishing Company Swann House 22 William Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Copyright © Oliver Burkeman, 2012 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright above, no part of this publication shall be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a

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W.H. Chong National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Author: Burkeman, Oliver. Title: antidote : happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking / Oliver Burkeman. ISBN: 9781921922671 (pbk.) ISBN: 9781921921483 (ebook : epub) Subjects: Happiness. Self-actualisation (Psychology) Positive psychology. Negativity (Philosophy) Dewey Number: 152.42 To my parents I have

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quotations from Eckhart Tolle are drawn either from my meeting with him, or from his books The Power of Now and A New Earth. See Oliver Burkeman, ‘The Bedsit Epiphany’, The Guardian, 11 April 2009; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Novato, California: New World Library, 1999) and A New Earth (New

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Catch ‘a pretty effective spear’: All quotations from Bruce Schneier come from my interview with him and from his essay ‘The Psychology of Security’. See Oliver Burkeman, ‘Heads in the Clouds’, Guardian, 1 December 2007; and Bruce Schneier, ‘The Psychology of Security’, accessible at www.schneier.com/essay-155.html the 2020

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

by Oliver Burkeman · 8 Oct 2024 · 123pp · 43,370 words

: On the liberation of defeat Three hours: On finding focus in the chaos Set a quantity goal: On firing your inner quality controller ALSO BY OLIVER BURKEMAN Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and

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Get a Bit More Done A Note About the Author Oliver Burkeman worked for many years at The Guardian, where he wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, “This Column Will Change Your Life.” His books include

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Mortals and The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. You can sign up for email updates here. You can subscribe to Oliver Burkeman’s email newsletter, The Imperfectionist, at oliverburkeman.com. Thank you for buying this Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook. To receive special offers, bonus content, and

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matters On finding your way Epilogue Imperfectly onward Acknowledgments Further Reading Index of Afflictions Also by Oliver Burkeman A Note About the Author Copyright Farrar, Straus and Giroux 120 Broadway, New York 10271 Copyright © 2024 by Oliver Burkeman All rights reserved Originally published in 2024 by The Bodley Head, Great Britain Published in the

Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy

by David Sawyer · 17 Aug 2018 · 572pp · 94,002 words

my best thinking). And I run with them. Sound weird? Well, I’m in good company. Ryan Holiday[116], Anne Lamott[117], Robert Greene[118], Oliver Burkeman[119], Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Nabokov[120] and Ludwig Wittgenstein[121] all use (d) the humble index card to catalogue and organise their thoughts. If you

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’ve specifically used to declutter my mind, so I can achieve what I want. A: Journaling/Morning Pages I first read about Morning Pages in Oliver Burkeman’s column[185]. I then bought one of author Julia Cameron’s spin-off books The Artist’s Way for Parents[186]. For one year

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buys you time, the most precious commodity of all. Drawing on research undertaken by Swiss economists Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey, author and Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman points to the commuter’s “cognitive mistake”: “people chronically underestimate the downsides of a long commute, while overestimating the upsides of (say) a bigger house

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learn something. 9. Don’t trust your gut for small decisions Be rational. But for big decisions, go for your life. According to Help! author Oliver Burkeman’s extensive research, big decisions involve: “so many factors that rational analysis will make things worse: you’ll fail to take account of some potential

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– Wikipedia.” toreset.me/116. [117] Anne Lamott: “Anne Lamott – Wikipedia.” toreset.me/117. [118] Robert Greene: “Robert Greene (American author) – Wikipedia.” toreset.me/118. [119] Oliver Burkeman: “Oliver Burkeman | The Guardian.” toreset.me/119. [120] Vladimir Nabokov: “Vladimir Nabokov – Wikipedia.” toreset.me/120. [121] Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Ludwig Wittgenstein – Wikipedia.” toreset.me/121. [122] Audible

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] “all obstacles in my way…”: “Jimmy Cliff – I Can See Clearly Now With Lyrics – YouTube.” 8 Apr. 2012, toreset.me/184. [185] Morning Pages in Oliver Burkeman’s column: “This column will change your life: Morning Pages | Life and style | The...” 3 Oct. 2014, toreset.me/185. [186] The Artist’s Way

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words

the goal than you do enjoying the fruits of your success. Even if you succeed, success is brief. Writing for the Guardian, human behavior expert Oliver Burkeman explained: When you approach life as a sequence of milestones to be achieved, you exist “in a state of near-continuous failure.” Almost all the

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, thanks to Nicole Airey, Dean Alter, Jenny Alter, Ian Alter, Sara Alter, Chloe Angyal, Gary Aston Jones, Nicole Avena, Jessica Barson, Kent Berridge, Michael Brough, Oliver Burkeman, Hilarie Cash, Ben Caunt, Rameet Chawla, John Disterhoft, Andy Doan, Natasha Dow Schüll, David Epstein, Bennett Foddy, Allen Frances, Claire Gillan, Malcolm Gladwell, David Goldhill

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Year,” Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2015, www.wsj.com/articles/these-streakers-resolve-to-run-every-day-of-the-year-1419986806. Writing for the: Oliver Burkeman, “Want to Succeed? You Need Systems, Not Goals,” Guardian, November 7, 2014, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/07/systems-better-than—goals

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-oliver-burkeman. See also: Scott Adams, How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (New York: Portfolio, 2014). Sam

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18, 2011, www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518949/cow-clicker-founder-if-you-cant-ruin-it-destroy-it. EPILOGUE This is known as the: Oliver Burkeman, “This Column Will Change Your Life: The End-of-History Illusion,” Guardian, January 19, 2013, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/19/change-your-life

Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less

by Michael Hyatt · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 59,662 words

Cover 256 Stepping into Focus What will your life have been, in the end, but the sum total of everything you spent it focusing on? OLIVER BURKEMAN I think I’m having a heart attack!” Of all ways to end a relaxing dinner, this is among the worst. I was a publishing

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for most of us, work is the hardest place to find it. The truth is we live and labor in the Distraction Economy. As journalist Oliver Burkeman says, “Your attention is being spammed all day long.”2 And stemming the flow of inputs and interruptions can seem impossible. Consider email. Collectively, we

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-offs make it impossible to give my high-value tasks, health, relationships, and personal pursuits the time and attention—the focus—they deserve. And, as Oliver Burkeman asks, “What will your life have been, in the end, but the sum total of everything you spent it focusing on?”17 The pace of

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advance. You can email or Slack those who need to know. Post a status update in the appropriate channels. Set an autoresponder for your email. Oliver Burkeman says an email inbox is like having a to-do list everyone in the world can populate.8 Regain and retain control of it by

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A. Simon, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World,” Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, ed. Martin Greenberger (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971), 40. 2. Oliver Burkeman, “Attentional Commons,” New Philosopher, August–October 2017. 3. Richard Ovenden, “Virtual Memory: The Race to Save the Information Age,” Financial Times, May 19, 2016, https

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

by Cal Newport · 5 Mar 2024 · 233pp · 65,893 words

notions of productivity. These included Celeste Headlee’s Do Nothing, Anne Helen Petersen’s Can’t Even, Devon Price’s Laziness Does Not Exist, and Oliver Burkeman’s delightfully sardonic Four Thousand Weeks. This exhaustion with work was also reflected in multiple waves of heavily reported social trends that crested one after

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

by Taylor Clark · 5 Nov 2007 · 304pp · 96,930 words

a Coffee-Crazy Seattle — and a Horde of Competitors,” Seattle Weekly, August 2, 1989; Jennifer Reese, “The High Church of Starbucks,” Salon, November 24, 1997; Oliver Burkeman, “Howard’s Way,” Guardian, October 20, 2000; Andrew Davidson, “The Man with Grounds for Global Success,” Sunday Times (London), September 14, 2003; and “The Success

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One Cup at a Time (New York: Hyperion, 1997). Page 96. David Shields, “The Capitalist Communitarian,” New York Times Magazine, March 24, 2002. Page 97. Oliver Burkeman, “Howard’s Way,” Guardian, October 20, 2000. Page 98. Dave Barry, “A Tall Order, Grammatically,” Miami Herald, October 10, 2004. Page 100. On design at

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Beijing’s Forbidden City,” Washington Post, November 23, 2000; and Martin Fackler, “The Forbidden City Gets a Starbucks,” Associated Press, November 28, 2000. Page 259. Oliver Burkeman, “Howard’s Way,” Guardian, October 20, 2000. Page 260. Mark D. Fefer, “Flappuccino: Arabs Boycott Starbucks,” Seattle Weekly, June 26, 2002. Daniel Gross’s Slate

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

by Brian Klaas · 23 Jan 2024 · 250pp · 96,870 words

are just organized chunks of tissue and cells containing chemicals, why should the brain be any different? But Chalmers highlighted something deeper. As the writer Oliver Burkeman summarized the conundrum, “How could the 1.4 kilogram lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as

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of consciousness: D. J. Chalmers, “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness,” Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3) (1995): 200–219. “1.4 kilogram lump”: Oliver Burkeman, “Why Can’t the World’s Greatest Minds Solve the Mystery of Consciousness?,” Guardian, 21 January 2015. “fill a few holes”: “A Few Holes to

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words

book materialized, the knowledge that there was a growing ecosystem behind this narrative came after reading a 2017 Guardian long read by author and columnist Oliver Burkeman titled “Is the World Really Better than Ever?” This piece, which I recommend reading prior to moving on to Chapter One, gives a full dramatis