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I'm Rufus Christo and this is the next big idea.

Well folks, the day has finally come. We've reached the end of our countdown.

It's been pretty great, hasn't it? We've heard from Walter Isaacson and Adam Grant,

Heather McGee, Amanda Ripley, and so many other great thinkers. Today we're sharing last year's

most popular book bite. This is the summary that our next big idea app user has listened to

more than any other. It's a book that was praised by our curator Daniel Pink as profound.

Adam Grant called it, quote, the most important book ever written about time management.

The book is 4,000 weeks time management for mortals by Oliver Berkman.

How much time do you have on this planet? If you live to be 80, you'll get about 4,000 weeks.

It's a lot, but not nearly enough to complete the potentially infinite number of things you

may want to get done. In 4,000 weeks, Oliver encourages us to take a step back from day-to-day

and look at our tasks in the context of our lives as a whole. Here's Oliver.

Hello, I'm Oliver Berkman. I'm an author and a journalist, and for many years I wrote a weekly

column on psychology and other things for the Guardian newspaper called this column will change your

life. My latest book is called 4,000 weeks time management for mortals, and it's an attempt to

rethink the question of how to make the best use of your time once you really take into account

how little of it we get, and why I think it's actually empowering and really a big relief

to confront our limitations in this way instead of constantly struggling to avoid thinking about

them. It grew out of my own history as a so-called productivity geek. Being a productivity geek

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