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Title: Four Thousand Weeks Authors: Oliver Burkeman Category:books Number of Highlights: 8 Date: 2026-01-05 Last Highlighted: 2022-01-09
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âThis space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live,â lamented Seneca, (39)
Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.â) (346)
Think of it as âexistential overwhelmâ: the modern world provides an inexhaustible supply of things that seem worth doing, and so there arises an inevitable and unbridgeable gap between what youâd ideally like to do and what you actually can do. (512)
Theyâre just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation. (1263)
The first is to develop a taste for having problems. (2104)
embrace radical incrementalism. (2114)
originality lies on the far side of unoriginality. (2133)
But it begins at all only for those who can muster the patience to immerse themselves in the earlier stageâthe trial-and-error phase of copying others, learning new skills, and accumulating experience. (2147)