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OLIVER BURKEMAN is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for...
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I'm Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for...
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Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian. In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness.
OLIVER BURKEMAN is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done . He wrote a long-running column for the Guardian, This Column Will Change Your Life, and has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality and the power of limits.
Oliver Burkeman is the author of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, about embracing limitation and finally getting round to what counts, along with The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help!
Oliver Burkeman is the author of Four Thousand Weeks (4.22 avg rating, 85340 ratings, 8895 reviews, published 2021), The Antidote (4.04 avg rating, 14802...
The real point is that it's just one way of making a key step on the path of embracing limitation: giving up the fight against time. The core trouble in our modern relationship with time, I think – made worse by most productivity advice – is that we've come to see it as something we need to try to master or conquer.
The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done. There aren't many hard-and-fast rules of time management that apply to everyone, always, regardless of situation or personality (which is why I tend to emphasise general principles instead).
