Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts

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Oliver Burkeman

Meditations for Mortals

Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts

Oliver Burkeman

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The Bodley Head Ltd
12 September 2024

Popular philosophy; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

From the author of the global bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a liberating four-week journey towards a saner, freer, more meaningful, more enchantment-filled life.

Meditations for Mortals takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life - one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves.

Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, it offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts- a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls 'imperfectionism'. How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much to do? What if purposeful productivity were often about letting things happen, not making them happen?

Reflecting on ideas drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman explores practical tools and shifts in perspective. The result is a bracing challenge to much familiar advice, and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.

To be read either as a four-week 'retreat of the mind' or devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.

By: Oliver Burkeman
Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9781847927613
ISBN 10: 1847927610
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. oliverburkeman.com

Reviews for Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts

Thoughtful, level-headed and useful ... a book to meditate upon * The Times * I'm sceptical about self-help - but a four-week 'mind retreat' changed me ... [Meditations for Mortals] teems with good sense, sensibly dispensed * i * A bracing read ... I'd bet that his audience will finish it in one sitting ... uplifting * FT * Illuminating ... Burkeman's insight [is] always clear-eyed and jargon-free ... reassuring and constructive * Guardian * Full of wise advice on not getting overburdened by work * The Times *