Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman

Why it is included: We are obsessed with "efficiency"—the delusion that if we just rush fast enough, we can clear the decks and finally relax.

Burkeman uses rigorous philosophy to prove this is a trap.

We have roughly 4,000 weeks to live. The list will never be done. The more efficient you become, the more work you attract.

We include this to cure "Existential Overwhelm."

Burkeman teaches "Cosmic Humility": the shift from trying to dominate time to simply inhabiting it.

It is "Adaptive Flow" applied to the calendar, arguing that the only way to find peace in a chaotic era is to surrender the need for control, embrace our limits, and fully occupy the present moment.