I’m seeing many bloggers in my RSS feed talking about how they’re reading “Four Thousand Weeks.” I’m sure like many others, thinking about my own mortality is quite uncomfortable. It might be that it’s worth my while to read it, and confront it head on. Maybe not today though.
@lmika For me, that was a very small part of the book. The most important thing I got from it was reinforcement of the idea that there is no way we can optimize to do All The Things, and we would be better off focusing our energy on picking and doing the right (for each of us) things.
@lmika The book doesn't really dwell on mortality: it just kicks off its argument by saying "you've got about 4000 weeks to work with, let's talk about how and how not to use them." From there on it's more an anti-productivity time management book.
@petebrown @JMaxb Thanks for the clarification. I guess my impression I got from it was mistaken (I was also a little down when I wrote that post). It really does sound like it’s worth a read now.