"Any finite life -- even the best one you could possibly imagine -- is therefore a matter of ceaselessly waving goodbye to possibility" The books Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life are two new-ish "self-help" books that seem designed to be read together, or at least with awareness of each other. Both books are written by men who have attempted, in different ways, to "win" the rat race but instead suffered various kinds of...