Realistic and actionable advice on "time management". No, you cannot do everything. Not even a tiny fraction of all you want to do. No. Not possible. You will have to make though decisions. Assume that and live your life accordingly. Wonderful book.

"We've granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans , yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

"Our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we're doing for the very last time."

"One way of understanding capitalism, in fact, is as a giant machine for instrumentalizing everything it encounters--the Earth's resources, your time and abilities ("human resources")--in the service of future profit. Seeing things this way helps explain the otherwise mysterious truth that rich people in capitalist economies are often surprisingly miserable. They're very good at instrumentalizing their time, for the purpose of generating wealth for themselves; that's the definition of being successful in a capitalist world. But in focusing so hard on instrumentalizing their time, they end up treating their lives in the present moment as nothing but a vehicle in which to travel toward a future state of happiness. An so their days are sapped of meaning, even as their bank balances increases."

"As you dive into life as it really is, in clear-eyed awareness of your limitations, you begin to acquire what has become the least fashionable but perhaps most consequential of superpowers: patience."

"In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry--to allow things to take the time they take--is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future."

In the Corner of Traveler Street and Dorchester Avenue, in front of the Cambria Hotel, you will find a red "Sidewalk Library". There you can pick a book or leave a book. "Four thousand weeks" will be there until somebody will catch it. Enjoy the hunt.