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Books like Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is about time management, mortality, productivity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Deep Work
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    Deep Work

    Cal Newport · Self-help

    Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.

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  2. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    Greg McKeown · Self-help

    Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.

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  3. The One Thing
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    The One Thing

    Gary Keller and Jay Papasan · Self-help

    The One Thing is Gary Keller's argument that extraordinary results come not from doing more things but from doing fewer things better — specifically, from identifying the single most important thing at any given time and doing that before anything else.

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  4. Make Time
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    Make Time

    Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky · Self-help

    Make Time is a practical guide from two former Google Ventures designers who grew frustrated watching their own attention get swallowed by the default rhythms of the modern workday.

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  5. Die with Zero
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    Die with Zero

    Bill Perkins · Self-help

    Die with Zero is Bill Perkins's argument that most people with means make a significant life mistake: they optimize for financial security and end up dying with far more money than they ever spent, having failed to convert accumulated wealth into meaningful experiences at the age when those experiences are most valuable.

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  6. 12 Rules for Life
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    12 Rules for Life

    Jordan Peterson · Self-help

    12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.

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