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Meditations for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
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Summary

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Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

Our lives can feel defined by the struggle with overwhelm, endless decisions and striving to be productive. Wouldn’t it be good to stop doing all that? What if we could find freedom – and get more of the important things done – by embracing our limitations, and by letting things happen instead of forcing them?

Meditations for Mortals begins with the reality in which we actually find ourselves, not with fantasies of an ideal existence. Reflecting on ideas from philosophy, religion, psychology and self-help, it offers us a powerful and practical new way to do what counts: a guiding outlook Oliver Burkeman calls ‘imperfectionism’.

This book is a profound and liberating crash course in living more fully. It overturns much familiar advice and opens a gateway to a saner, freer and more enchantment-filled life.

‘Full of wisdom and comfort' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

‘A practical path toward personal transformation… A must-read' CAL NEWPORT

'If there are two people who have changed my life...then one of them is Oliver Burkeman' PANDORA SYKES

'Oliver Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it’ MARK MANSON
© Oliver Burkeman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Critic reviews

Thoughtful, level-headed and useful ... a book to meditate upon
I'm sceptical about self-help - but a four-week 'mind retreat' changed me ... [Meditations for Mortals] teems with good sense, sensibly dispensed
A bracing read ... I'd bet that his audience will finish it in one sitting ... uplifting
Illuminating ... Burkeman's insight [is] always clear-eyed and jargon-free ... reassuring and constructive
Full of wise advice on not getting overburdened by work
Life-changing
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)
Full of wisdom and comfort. I enjoyed every page and read it in a single sitting. This is a really important book about embracing truth and reality (Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People)
A very special book. We should all read this - for the sake of our aching world as well as the state of our souls (Krista Tippett, author of Becoming Wise)
A practical path towards personal transformation. A must-read (Cal Newport, author of Slow Productivity)
All stars
Most relevant
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 .

Letting go

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Oliver Burkeman successfully writes, in modern day words, how to implement the concept and practice of meditation into our daily lives.
The instruction at the beginning to listen 1 day at a time, so that each chapter represents one week, is a great way to digest this resource as it encourages you to take 1 thought/action into the day you hear it.
Olivers lovely voice also makes this easy to listen to.
This is a great resource to return to when you need reminding that 'This life is it'

An invaluable resource

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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.

Feels Coming Home!

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The unusual approach of listening to a chapter a day led to a pondering of each chapter. The idea that we will never get everything done does is somehow very freeing.

Gradually life changing

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Excellent book. Enjoyed it very much cool cool cool cool cool one dudes and dudettes

Refreshingly relevant

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