Career
Personal time strategy
A long read
Your guess
Say you live to about 80. About how many weeks of life is that, total?
A week feels short. A life feels long. But a life is just weeks, stacked up. Live to 80, and you get about 4,000 of them.
Sources
- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks (2021)
- The Decision Lab
- American Psychological Association, “Multitasking: Switching costs”
- Cal Newport, Deep Work (2016)
- Valdez et al., Circadian Rhythms in Attention, PMC/NIH