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What if you'll never "catch up" on life?

That's the average human lifespan. Not four thousand years. Not four thousand months. Weeks. About 4,000 of them. Once you do that math, the whole idea of "getting on top of everything" starts to look absurd.

The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control.— Oliver Burkeman
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The thinker
Time & Productivity Realist

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and author of Four Thousand Weeks, a book that challenges modern productivity culture by confronting the radical brevity of human life.

Based on Oliver Burkeman — Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, summarised and reframed by Insights.

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