Meditations for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

£18.99

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‘Four Thousand Weeks’ touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of readers. Inspired and moved by Burkeman’s investigation into how to live unblinkingly in the face of our limited time on earth, some of them changed their lives: they made big decisions to rethink careers, relationships, priorities, and misguided assumptions about productivity. In this book, Burkeman brings the themes and questions at the heart of ‘Four Thousand Weeks’ – time, mortality, imperfection, productivity, and how to live fully and deeply even when things are most challenging – into the heart of our daily lives. How do we embrace the reality of our finiteness? How do we make decisions and act with conviction when there is always too much to do and failure is inevitable? How do we find a deeper sense of purpose when we realise that life is not a problem to be solved? How does care for others make us more free?

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Your happier, freer and more fulfilling life starts today!

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. Designed as a four-week ‘retreat of the mind’, it offers daily wisdom, solace and inspiration to aid a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled way of living.

Addressing fundamental questions about how to live, Oliver Burkeman proposes a powerful new guiding philosophy of ‘imperfectionism’. How can we embrace our limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? What if being truly productive means letting things happen, not making them happen?

Reflecting on philosophy, literature, psychology, religion 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.

‘Full of wisdom and comfort ? 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

‘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

Meditations for Mortals offers a practical path toward personal transformation ? A must-read’ CAL NEWPORT, author of Slow Productivity

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