i suspect it's because i may have inherited from my own parents something that fits very much in the theme of your book. My father would only ever talk about what he was doing, and he would almost never talks about what he intended to do. And my mother was always celebrating the thing that was happening. She wasn't thinking of out like gang wayt the nevers never came up like. I don't think of either of my parents as being future oriented. They were people. We never discussed to morrow. The whole exercise was just about enjoying each other's company. There was no other ite, was no grand plan. He wasn't trying to get exercise. It didn
“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.