You Only Get Four Thousand Weeks to Live
Notes on “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman
12 min readOct 31, 2021
Author Oliver Burkeman asked his friends to guess, without any mental math, how many weeks you have to live, if you live until 80 years old. Their answers were high: 60,000 weeks; 80,000 weeks; 310,000 weeks. The correct answer is about 4000 weeks.