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Four Thousand Weeks - by Oliver Burkeman | Derek Sivers

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Give up hope and embrace your limits. Everything you do means giving up something else. Say yes to less. He’s one of my favorite authors, so wonderfully thorough, but I already agree and am living this way. (My “Hell Yeah or No” was about this subject.) Still, I’d recommend it to anyone. Think of this book as an extended argument for the empowering potential of giving up hope, and embracing your limits. Can't rush natural life. Doing a month’s milking in a single day to get it out of the way? Try to make the harvest come sooner? No anxious pressure to “get everything done” because a farmer’s work is infinite: there will always be another milking and another harvest, forever, so there’s no sense in racing toward some hypothetical moment of completion. The rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves. Babies are the ultimate “task-oriented” beings. Some of the otherworldliness of those first few months with a newborn: You’re dragged from clock time into deep time. Deep

Think of this book as an extended argument for the empowering potential of giving up hope, and embracing your limits. Can't rush natural life. Doing a month’s milking in a single day to get it out of the way? Try to make the harvest come sooner? No anxious pressure to “get everything done” because a farmer’s work is infinite: there will always be another milking and another harvest, forever, so there’s no sense in racing toward some hypothetical moment of completion. The rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves. Babies are the ultimate “task-oriented” beings. Some of the ot

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