Living the finite life: Time management for mortals
Talk
Oliver Burkeman, author
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Event date
Thursday 2 February 2023, 6.15pm to 7.45pm
Location
In-person only
Room BS/005, Bowland auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Room BS/005, Bowland auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission
Event details
Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture
Our limited time on the planet – and our limited ability to control how that time unfolds – are obvious and un-ignorable to anyone who reflects even briefly on the human situation. Yet our daily experience of time seems organised around denying these truths, instead of adapting to them. We struggle to master incoming streams of information (and emails) even though those streams are effectively infinite; or feel we can't relax until we know what the future holds, when of course we never will. Drawing on his book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman explores what it might mean to live with a greater acknowledgment of our temporal limitations – and why this might be a path not only to greater peace of mind, but also to doing more effective work in the world.
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