Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Synopsis: A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life―a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we&’d like to be―from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand WeeksHow would life open up if we stopped treating it as a problem to be solved?Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls &“imperfectionism.&” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly.How can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there&’s always too much to do? How do we shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can &“get on top of everything&”? Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman explores a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice―and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.