# 📔 Four Thousand Weeks (Book) --- # ℹ️ Information **Author**:: [[Oliver Burkeman]] **Category**:: Non-fiction **Tags**:: #source/book **Started**:: 1/8/23 **Finished**:: **Medium**:: Kindle **Price**:: 3.99 **Readwise**: [[Four Thousand Weeks (Readwise)]] **Rating**:: --- # 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences * Efficiency is a trap - the more efficient we are, the more space we make for incremental work to be efficient against, creating a feedback loop of authentic inefficiency, misguided purpose, and an overwhelming ecosystem of action. * # 🧠 Overall Thoughts - ## 👍 What I Liked - How abstract and its approach to “alternative in thinking” on these topics of time and productivity - It challenges the notion that time and “productivity” are things you’re ever really going to master - this is impossible. That instead, we need to come to terms and accept that “doing more” is never going to solve our pain. - The author is extremely anecdotal - I’m frequently surprised by the massive library of stories, both personal and sourced from others, that makeup this book. ## 👎 What I Didn't Like * When constructing arguments, the author has a tendance to reach for parochial, or a narrow, approach at times to elevate the simplicity of his points. * One example is when the author is drawing the argument of efficiency and how this is a loss-leading game. * He generally refers to all tasks of equal value in these sections - he doesn’t differentiate the dimensional value of them and use this as a counter-point to respond to within this exposition. * While I know he does talk about task dimension later, it seems it could lose credibility for some who take it at face value and don’t continue reading. * I think he’s using that simplicity to make the point, which is fair, and then re-orients the dimensional value later on. * The author, very early in the book, communicates that this book is somewhat of a stream of conscious narrative with themselves - I feel this to be true * I don’t feel the structure of the parts, chapters, and sections are always telling extremely clear narratives * It sometimes feels like I’m along the ride of his mind where these topic bridges and the narrative is much more familiar - storied. * # ☘️ How the Book Changed Me %% How my life / behavior / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book. %% * # ✍️ My Top 3 Quotes > [!quote] # 📚 Books Referenced - [[How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (Book)]] by [[Arnold Bennett]] - --- # 📒 Notes