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

A National Bestseller

Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live,Meditations for Mortalsoffers 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, the feeling that the world is spinning out of control.

How can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when theres 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 adviceand a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.

To be either read as a four-week retreat of the mind or devoured in one or two sittings,Meditations for Mortalswill be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.

Thats the dilemma that will almost surely keep Oliver Burkeman busy: His counsel that lifes problems cant really be solved only primes his audience to want more advice . . . As Burkemans ideas seep into my bones, soslowlydoes the reality that Im going to be bumping up against the rough edges of life every day, el³…