
Four Thousand Weeks: Oliver Burkeman
Reasons Revisited
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Are You Trying to Get More Out of Your Leisure Time?
I'm conscious that part of my danger is that you translate an achievemen oriented mind set into your leisure activity. And i talk about playing the piano myself and sort of er hammering out rock eltoncaan tunes, yes, very badly. And i have never really been motivated to go further than the very low level of merit that i achieved when i was a kid in that area. But then i think about writing, which oways to do professionally, like it's deeply absorbing and meaningful to me, and i always want to do it for therest of my life, if i can. But it's quite fraught, because i cannot want it to be good, and i want
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