Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks | How To Academy

Thu, 12 September 2024

7:30 pm - 8:45 pm BST

Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

Live in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes

Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks changed people’s lives. Now he joins us live in London with a wise and practical plan for shedding our illusions and finding true fulfilment.

Oliver Burkeman’s global bestseller Four Thousand Weeks was that rarest of creatures: a self-help book that genuinely changed lives, inspiring thousands of us to rethink careers, relationships, and big decisions. In celebration of the launch of the sequel, Meditations for Mortals, Oliver joins How To Academy to take us on a liberating and invigorating journey towards a more meaningful life – a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but the reality in which we find ourselves.

How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? How to shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can ‘get on top of everything’? And what if purposeful productivity was often a matter of letting things happen, not making them happen?

Don’t miss this rare chance to hear from one of the wisest and most respected writers at work in the psychology and wellbeing field today, and to ask him your own questions about how to live a fuller and more enchanted life.

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Oliver Burkeman

Author of Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.

He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.

Hannah MacInnes

Presenter, Podcaster and Host of How To Academy’s live programmes.

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.