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Meditations for Mortals

Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts

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Meditations for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
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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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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 !

Even better than 4 thousand weeks!

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I enjoyed reading a short chapter each day. Lots of good lessons throughout which do make an impact in your daily life.

Good daily read

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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.

Insightful, warm and funny

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Thought-provoking. Should be required reading for all Type As. Great narration by the author.

All type As should read this!

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Packed with insightful nuggets. Will come back to it every now and then when I slip into old mental habits.

Very high wisdom to words ratio

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I could listen to this book over and over as the messages and insights are so important to daily life. I would highly recommend.

Wonderful insights

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I truly love this book. I listen and re-listen to each chapter and continue finding new topics for meditation. It’s super inspiring and so honest. Food for thoughts for a lot of fundamental questions, and an explanation to so many of human features and behaviours. A truly different way of looking at life, accepting the reality and learning to act accordingly, to accomplish and enjoy more.
THANK YOU, Oliver Burkeman!

So honestly rich and very philosophical

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a strong message about not trying to control the uncontrollable. Well researched and well told.

some very interesting takeaways

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It hasn't made me a better version of myself but I feel more at peace with that. It's not a book to help you find the giant within, thank god. I just enjoyed listening to it.

It hasn't made me a better version of myself but

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I admire Burkeman’s wit, candour and his clear and perfectly paced delivery of his well crafted words. He makes it accessible and easy to listen to in one sitting (despite it being split into daily sections). I’ve enjoyed listening to this audiobook twice now, each time finding new poignancy.
It’s fortunately neither patronising nor “being clever”. It’s a delightful and engaging set of contemporary musings from a journalist who I would happily invite to the dinner table as someone with interesting stories and life experiences.
Worth a listen at least once.

Refreshingly honest wisdom beautifully put and presented

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