Oliver Burkeman – How to Make Time for What Counts | How To Academy

National Tour

13th September - 26th September 2025

Oliver Burkeman – How to Make Time for What Counts

Live In Conversation in London and Edinburgh

Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks changed people’s lives. Now he joins us 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. Building upon those ideas and those of his new book, Meditations for Mortals, Oliver will 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.

Oliver will be joined by Josie Long in Edinburgh and by a special guest interviewer in London yet to be announced.

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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.

Josie Long

Award Winning Comedian and Podcaster

Josie Long  is a trailblazer of the UK comedy industry, as the first woman to be nominated 3 times for Edinburgh Comedy Award (2010 – 2012). Her 9 critically acclaimed tours showcase her unique and powerfully original voice and have been performed globally to sell-out shows. Her various podcasts and original radio shows have garnered her a world-wide audience of dedicated listeners and multiple awards.
Josie is an avid film-maker, having written and performed in 2 short films and most recently a full-length feature called Super November. She’s been on all the TV channels, and has 2 comedy specials currently streaming. Cara Josephine is available on Amazon Prime, and Something Better is available on Netflix. Her debut book, a collection of short stories called Because I Don’t Know What You Mean and What You Don’t is out now.