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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
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week journey to embracing your limitations, thriving in an age of bewilderment, and finally making time for what counts.

How would life open up if we stopped treating it as a problem to be solved?

Meditations for Mortals takes us on a liberating, invigorating journey toward a more meaningful life - a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but the reality in which we actually find ourselves. It brings themes at the heart of Oliver Burkeman's bestselling Four Thousand Weeks - our finite time, the lure of distraction, and the impossibility of doing anything perfectly - into our daily lives, offering a powerful new way to take action on what counts in an overwhelming era.

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?

Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology and self-help, it offers a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice - and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.

Designed either as a four-week 'retreat of the mind', or to be devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals will be an insightful companion offering wisdom that sinks into your bones - a source of solace and inspiration and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In our anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.
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Imprint:   The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 222mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   750g
ISBN:   9781847927613
ISBN 10:   1847927610
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

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

Oliver Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it -- Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Full of wisdom and comfort. I enjoyed every page and read it in a single sitting. This is a really important book about embracing truth and reality which will help a lot of people leave their fantasies and dive into real life -- Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People I follow Oliver Burkeman's personal, literary, and journalistic adventures into wisdom with admiration and exhilaration. Now he bring us a 'retreat of the mind' in a very special book. We should all read this, preferable in the company of others - for the sake of our aching world as well as the state of our souls -- Krista Tippett, author of Being Wise More than a book of ideas, Meditations for Mortals offers a practical path toward personal transformation - one that helps you sidestep the shallow allure of frenetic busyness and find a liberation joy in the limits and imperfections of life. A must-read -- Cal Newport, author of Slow Productivity A bracing and refreshing antidote ... With crackling wit and counter-intuitive wisdom, Burkeman shows that it’s okay — and often smarter — to do less, let some goals slides, and embrace our imperfections. This book is both a comfort and a challenge — exactly what our trying times demand -- Daniel H. Pink, author of The Power of Regret


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