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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE FOR READERS¡¯ FAVOURITE NON-FICTION¡°Rehab for burned-out high achievers.¡± ¡ªThe GuardianHow would life open up if we stopped treating it as a problem to be solvedAddressing 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¨Dand a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.A map for a liberating journey toward amore meaningful life¨Da journey thatbegins where we actually find ourselves,not with a fantasy of where we¡¯d like to be¨Dfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks