You Only Get Four Thousand Weeks to Live

Notes on “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman

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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.