The average human lifespan is just over four thousand weeks. How will you spend your days? How should you spend your days? Journalist Oliver Burkeman has thoughts.
Yesterday
A Better Kind of Financial Freedom
What if freedom didn’t have to wait until retirement? In Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now, author, speaker, and financial advisor Brian Herriot argues that the goal isn’t necessarily to stop working forever—it’s to build a life where work, m ... Show More
28m 30s
Sep 14
Do Leaders Even Matter?
We love to credit the person at the top when things go right—and blame them when they don’t. But how much power does one leader really have? In Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter?, Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond draws on politics, business, relig ... Show More
27m 58s
Sep 11
Authenticity, Skepticism, and a Better Way to Live
What if being true to yourself isn’t about discovering a hidden “real you,” but actively creating the person you’ll become? In How to Be Authentic, philosopher Skye Cleary draws on Simone de Beauvoir to explore freedom, responsibility, and why authenticity is an ongoing adventure ... Show More
25m 41s
Mar 2022
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALS: Malcolm Gladwell and Oliver Burkeman
“The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short.” So begins Oliver Burkeman’s new book, “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.” Make it to 80, and you’ll get about 4,000 weeks. And so, as the poet asked, “What will you do with your one wild an ... Show More
54m 52s
Feb 2025
How to make the most of a finite life (w/ Oliver Burkeman)
There’s only so much you can do in a week – or, according to Oliver Burkeman, in the roughly 4,000 weeks the average human lives. Oliver is a journalist and author of the books Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Meditations for Mortals, and the newsletter “The Impe ... Show More
40m 22s
Oct 2021
How To Rethink What You Spend Your Time — And Life — Doing
You've only got 4,000 weeks to live — give or take. While that may come as a brutal dose of reality, it's also an opportunity to think about how you're spending that time.In this episode, we talk to Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, abou ... Show More
19m 38s
Jun 2023
Time Management for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman
The average human will live for roughly 4000 weeks. Foregrounding this can be a source of stress, leading us to constantly run from one task to another. Or, it can be a source of meaning and purpose, nudging us to focus on what really matters. In this episode, Forrest is joined b ... Show More
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