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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