Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Olivia Burkeman Workplace Culture What deserves your limited reserve

What deserves your limited reserve of energy

Sally Wern Comport has been a working artist since her teenage years as an on-staff artist for her father's advertising agency

and had only very recently learned to ride a bike

Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Olivia Burkeman Workplace Culture What deserves your limited reserveThe average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed with our lengthening to do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we're deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and "life hacks" to optimize our days. But such techniques often