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Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman is the bestseling author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: Time Management for MortalsMEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, and THE ANTIDOTE: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. For many years he wrote a popular column for the Guardian, ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’, on psychology, productivity, self-help culture, and the science of happiness. His writing has also appeared in the Observer, the New York Times, the Wall Street JournalPsychologies magazine and New Philosopher. A resident of Brooklyn, New York for more than a decade, he currently lives with his wife and son in the North York Moors in England.

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