Four Thousand Weeks

After a year of recovering from burnout, my husband referred me to an episode of The Ezra Klein Show in which Oliver Burkeman discusses his book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Embracing and trying out its perspectives and strategies, I’m clearer about what truly matters to me, more focused than ever on actually doing it, and perhaps most importantly, free from anxiety about the vast list of things I’m not getting done. This revelation—that we are limited and will never have the capacity and time to do all the things we and our modern social pressures want for us—is incredibly freeing.