Life And Society

Time Management for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman

15:10 pm on 14 February 2022

Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved work-life balance, says writer Oliver Burkeman. The average human life span is about 4000 weeks, so we need to learn how to make the most of our time by knowing how to neglect the right things in a world with relentless distraction. Oliver offers his advice for negotiating impossible demands on our time in his new book, Four Thousand Weeks. 

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