Lessons From the Best Time Management Book You’ll Ever Read

What you can learn from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Ash P.
10 min readAug 19, 2021
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I just read the best time management book I’ve ever read in my life.

These are not mince words. It took me 5 days to read the whole thing, mainly because every other paragraph contained a massive revelation I needed to digest. This book was so good that it broke through my writing rut and got me to write the very article you’re reading right now.

I simply must tell the world about this amazing book.

The book I'm referring to is Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. What follows is a condensed version of what I consider to be the most important lessons this book can teach you. But make no mistake, you need to read this book. Go buy it. Right now. And read it. The whole thing.

(I realize I sound like an ad, so let me assure you I don’t get any kind of compensation for this recommendation. I’m simply a fan.)

Important Lessons from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

  • The average lifespan is 80 years, or 4,000 weeks (hence the title of the book).

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