2021 Financial Times Books of the Year An Instant New York Times Best Seller This program is read by the author. Time is our biggest worry: There is too little of it. The acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philoso...

Four Thousand Weeks

The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so...

The Antidote

Brought to you by Penguin. The instant Sunday Times best seller. A Financial Times, Guardian and Observer Book of the Year. One of the Daily Telegraph's 75 Best Books of 2021. What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.”  —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could fina...

To achieve any major life goal, conventional wisdom tells us we must think positively. Picture yourself delivering the perfect presentation and it shall be so; envisage the ideal job interview and it will go well; imagine yourself sprinting first acr...

The Power of Negative Thinking

There's a ritual of the modern workplace - one you've heard and most likely indulged in yourself. It's the call and response we go through when you ask a workmate how they're doing: 'Busy!' 'So busy.' It is pretty obviously a boast disguised as a com...

Addicted to Busy

Why is everyone so angry nowadays, and what is it doing to the world? In the developed world we live in a blessed epoch, a time and a place where life has never been better. Infant mortality has been all but abolished, we have greater personal choice...

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