Four Thousand Weeks Book Club

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@ Marigold: The OSU Center for Contemplative Practice

4 Tuesdays June 25, July 2, July 9, July 16 | 6:30-7:45pm

Sliding Scale - Choose your contribution: $20, $35 or $50 for the series.

648 SW 2nd Street Corvallis, OR 97333 | Please use our shared entrance with Wild Yeast on SW B Ave.

Registration is Closed

In this four-week book club, we'll gather to discuss our individual reading of Oliver Burkeman's New York Times bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks. In the book, Burkeman invites us to recognize the unsurprising truth of finitude and the more surprising freedom that comes from embracing limitation. This book is a refreshing breeze for our, collectively, overworked psyches and just might be a healing balm for our productivity-obsessed culture. Burkeman's analysis spans history, psychology, philosophy and spirituality and offers a compelling contemplation of our greatest time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our, on average, four thousand weeks or eighty some odd years of life. While we're at it, topics of control, personal sovereignty, meaning, and happiness come to the fore.