Meditations for Mortals

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

Author  Oliver Burkeman
Meditations for Mortals

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“Rehab for burned-out high achievers.”
The Guardian

How 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…