{"title":"Homepage Featured 1","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"four-thousand-weeks-time-management-for-mortals-paperback","title":"Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver Burkeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Includes an interview with James Hollis* \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Provocative and appealing . . . Well worth your extremely limited time.\" --Barbara Spindel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a good reason why everyone has been talking about Oliver Burkeman's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003c\/i\u003e. Nobody needs to be told there isn't enough time. Whether we're starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we're planning a vacation, we're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We're deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and yet the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks, the average length of a human life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with \"getting everything done,\" \u003ci\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003c\/i\u003e introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we've made as individuals and as a society--and that we can do things differently.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Burkeman \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and an award-winning feature writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, where he wrote a long-running weekly column on psychology, \"This Column Will Change Your Life.\" His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePsychologies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Philosopher\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDigital Minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeep Work\u003c\/i\u003e, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur current definition of \"productivity\" is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We're overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers - from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O'Keefe - Newport lays out the key principles of \"slow productivity,\" a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, \u003ci\u003eSlow Productivity \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCal Newport \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of computer science at Georgetown University where he is also a founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics. 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