Review of Four Thousand Weeks Four thousand weeks attempts to change the thinking about time that do justice to all humans’ real situation: the brevity and shimmering possibilities of our four thousand weeks. It explores a saner way of relating to time and provides a toolbox of practical ideas for doing so. Four Thousand Weeks This is the number of weeks that a human has, assuming he/she lives to be eighty. Each of us might have less or more time, depending on how old we live to. The Time Conundrum Previously, time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Once “time” and “life” had been separated in most people’s minds, time became a thing that you used. This shift serves as the precondition for all the uniquely modern ways in which we struggle with time today. Once time becomes a resource to be used, you start to feel pressure, whether from external forces or from yourself, to use it well, and to berate yourself when you feel you have wasted it. Thus, we have inherited and feel pressured to live by a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited…