Meditations for Mortals
Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
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Oliver Burkeman
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Oliver Burkeman
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Banish burnout. Choose calm. Embrace life. One day at a time.
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
'Thoughtful, level-headed, and useful ... a book to meditate upon' THE TIMES
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- Helen Rodgers
- 17-11-24
Even better than 4 thousand weeks!
I really enjoyed this book - so many of the examples given ring true . I like the relaxing writing style and the references to other writers . I ended up making myself a list of important take hone messages- as there were so many . Thank you Oliver for another great book !
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- Anonymous User
- 03-03-25
Wonderfully different
Beautifully different take on productivity and what it means to have a meaningful life. Highly recommend this fantastic book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-10-24
Very high wisdom to words ratio
Packed with insightful nuggets. Will come back to it every now and then when I slip into old mental habits.
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- NEB
- 20-12-24
Wonderful insights
I could listen to this book over and over as the messages and insights are so important to daily life. I would highly recommend.
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- Will G
- 02-04-25
some very interesting takeaways
a strong message about not trying to control the uncontrollable. Well researched and well told.
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- julie brimble
- 19-09-24
Letting go
I’ve been struggling to accept and move on from a difficult event. This book helped me grasp its simply letting go isn’t failing and but a freeing way forward. Thank u .
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- Yukiko Kabuki
- 14-01-25
Feels Coming Home!
I love the author’s sense of humor, maturity, humility and loving renunciation.
Hearing some familiar Japanese quotes was amusing.
Hope many of Japanese friends who have been trying to put on American shoes of self help and positive thinking feeling there’s something murky with them may enjoy this book.
Of course I am more than happy to translate it for them as a professionally trained translator.
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- Khanitez
- 04-01-25
Turns Productivity on its head
Forget about everything we know about productivity. Oliver Burkeman gives us another way of doing what is best and at the same time achieving contentment.
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- Leonora Teale
- 17-02-25
Insightful, warm and funny
Amazing listen, insightful, warm and funny. Gives great perspective on the struggles and stresses of modern life, and helps you realise you don't have to be proclductive and doing something worthwhile 24/7.
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- Dr. Harrison
- 17-02-25
Good daily read
I enjoyed reading a short chapter each day. Lots of good lessons throughout which do make an impact in your daily life.
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