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Four Thousand Weeks Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

AN INSTANT The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

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Modern Wisdom

The host highlighted the book's insight that when committing to focused work on a few projects, you must decide in advance what you will intentionally be bad at.

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If you're going to have a committed period of focused work on a small number of projects, you need to decide in advance what you're going to suck at. Because inevitably, when you do decide to focus on...

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The host highlighted the book's insight that when committing to focused work on a few projects, you must decide in advance what you will intentionally be bad at.

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If you're going to have a committed period of focused work on a small number of projects, you need to decide in advance what you're going to suck at. Because inevitably, when you do decide to focus on some things, that means you can't focus on other things.

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