Four Thousand Weeks
We all only live about 4000 weeks.
This deadline of living on Planet Earth can make us do stuff quickly, trying to be as productive as possible in the short time we have.
This phenomenon of speeding up, called the productivity trap leads us to unhappiness and eventual disappointment. Counterintuitively, we need to slow down to make the most out of life.
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