Name: Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Finally Make Time for What Counts
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Author: Oliver Burkeman
ISBN: 9780374611996

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oliver Burkeman

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780374611996

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

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. Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman's breakout New York Times bestseller, touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of readers. Inspired and moved by his investigation of how to live unblinkingly in the face of our limited time on earth, some of them changed their lives--and made big decisions to rethink careers, relationships, priorities, and misguided assumptions about productivity. Now, in Meditations for Mortals, Burkeman brings the themes and questions at the center 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 realize that life is not a problem to be solved? How does care for others make us more free? Comprised of four weeks of extended reflections on inspiring quotations--drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help--Burkeman's latest is the perfect companion during a time of turbulence and pervasive anxiety: a source of solace and enlightenment, inspiration and insight, and humor and provocation. The result is a winking challenge to the usual self-help platitudes--a surprising and entertaining crash course in living meaningfully.

Oliver Burkeman

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Oliver Burkeman is a British writer and journalist who currently lives in New York. His work has been recognized on several occasions, he was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2006 and named Young Journalist of the Year by The Foreign Press Association. He is the author of several bestsellers such as The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, and the international bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. He also writes the popular weekly psychology column for The Guardian "This Column Will Change Your Life", in which he addresses all kinds of issues related to the world of psychology, philosophy, and mental health, among others. @oliverburkeman

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