27. Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks
Joyful Climate Writing4 Apr 2023

27. Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks

I highly recommend Four Thousand Weeks: Time management for mortals by Oliver Burkeman.

This my favourite book on productivity. It helped me let go of the age old existential crisis question of ‘what is the meaning of life.’

This quote in particular captures some of the essence of that, stop worrying so much about having an impact and what you should do and ask yourself what you really enjoy doing:

“Perhaps your particular contribution to a world facing multiple crises isn’t primarily to spend your time pursuing activism, or seeking electoral office, but on caring for an elderly relative, or making music, or working as a pastry check, like my brother-in-law, a strapping South African you might mistake for a rugby player but whose work involves concocting intricate structures of spun sugar and butter icing that detonate small explosions of joy in their recipients. The Buddhist teacher Susan Piver points out that it can be surprisingly radical and discomfiting, for many of us, to ask how we’d enjoy spending our time.”

How would you enjoy spending your time? The answer to that question might be a good one for how you might use your time best.

In time you might find it aligns beautifully with your concerns about climate change.

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