i think the younger me certainly would have assumed that everything you just described. Then would it would mean that, you know, you might now be working at a serf school in barley somewhere? It's hard to look at what you do and not see you as driven. In some sense, driven is an interesting way of thinking about all this. But it kind of is a little bit suspect when you think about it. Certainly, i was driven to try to solve some personal problem when i was first writing about these topics in a journalistic contest. Ye, there's two either. Let's lets quicklyn wove, back, dear to you a since you arethe subject of this interview
“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 and precious life?” For most of us, the answer is obvious: Get busy. Why squander what little time we have? But in this conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver proposes an alternative. If you want to make the most of your time, he says, you have to stop chasing pointless productivity and embrace life’s finitude.