Next big idea club curator, malcolm gladwell and rider oliverb men got together to discuss oliver's new book. It was chosen by our curators as one of the eight best books published last year. He says he tried all that stuff for years, constantly asking, how can i make the most of my time? Until one day it finally dawned on me, what if the problem wasn't that i hadn't yet found the perfect system?
“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.