Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

This was an interesting read that approaches time management from a philosophical perspective rather than from a self-help perspective. It asks several questions: What is our experience of time? What qualifies as a good or bad use of it? The premise asks us to set aside the goal of attempting to stuff our days with slots of value for a future payoff and instead consider how we want to allocate our four thousand weeks to enjoy the present. 

Some parts of this were rather repetitive, but I came away with good insights. I do wish the book would have focused less on what is wrong with our approach to time and more on building a vision of what could be better.

Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (‘This shouldn't be happening'), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process.”