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From the international bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks comes a four-week journey to embracing your limitations, thriving in an age of bewilderment, and finally making time for what counts.

Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkemans breakout international bestseller, touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of readers. Inspired and moved by Burkemans investigation into how to live unblinkingly in the face of our limited time on earth, some of them changed their lives: they made big decisions to rethink careers, relationships, priorities, and misguided assumptions about productivity.

In Meditations for Mortals, Burkeman brings the themes and questions at the heart of Four Thousand Weeks time, mortality, imperfection, productivity, and how to live fully and deeply even when things are most challenging into the heart of our daily lives. How do we embrace the reality of our finiteness? How do we make decisions and act with conviction when there is always too much to do and failure is inevitable? How do we find a deeper sense of purpose when we realise that life is not a problem to be solved? How does care for others make us more free?

Comprised of four weeks of extended reflections on inspiring quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help Burkemans latest is the perfect companion during a time of turbulence and pervasive anxiety: a source of solace and enlightenment, inspiration and insight, and humour and provocation. The result is a winking challenge to the usual self-help platitudes a surprising and entertaining crash course in living meaningfully.

Praise for Four Thousand Weeks:

Wonderful The Times
Perfectly pitched somewhere between practical self-help and philosophical quest Observer
Wise Mail on Sunday
Full of such sage and sane advice, delivered with dry wit and a benevolent tone Guardian

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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 theres 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 Fck

Meditations for Mortals offers a practical path toward personal transformation A must-read CAL NEWPORT, author of Slow Productivity

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Full of wisdom and comfort a really important book CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of Ultra-Processed People

How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when theres always too much to do? What if purposeful productivity were often about letting things happen, not making them happen?

Reflecting on ideas drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, 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.

Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, it offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls imperfectionism.

To be read either as a four-week retreat of the mind or devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life in 2025.

In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.

Thoughtful, level-headed, and useful ... a book to meditate upon THE TIMES

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 Fck

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Full of wisdom and comfort a really important book CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of Ultra-Processed People

Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, it offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls imperfectionism.

In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.

Thoughtful, level-headed, and useful ... a book to meditate upon THE TIMES

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 Fck

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024

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Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

Full of wisdom and comfort CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

A practical path toward personal transformation A must-read CAL NEWPORT

Our lives can feel defined by the struggle with overwhelm, endless decisions and striving to be productive. Wouldnt 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.

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

READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:

If you were only to read one book in your life, let it be this one.
Simultaneously simple and deeply profound.
Reading Oliver Burkeman has actually changed my life.
At once mind-bending and worldview-shattering
The rare kind of self-help book that I think everyone would benefit from

...(*_*)9781529926729_

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

Full of wisdom and comfort CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

A practical path toward personal transformation A must-read CAL NEWPORT

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.

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

READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:

If you were only to read one book in your life, let it be this one
Simultaneously simple and deeply profound
Reading Oliver Burkeman has actually changed my life
At once mind-bending and worldview-shattering
The rare kind of self-help book that I think everyone would benefit from

...(*_*)9781529926729_

AS SEEN ON ITVS THIS MORNING

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

Full of wisdom and comfort CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

A practical path toward personal transformation A must-read CAL NEWPORT

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.

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

READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:

...(*_*)9781529926729_

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

Full of wisdom and comfort CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

A practical path toward personal transformation A must-read CAL NEWPORT

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 in 2026. The perfect gift to help you live a fuller life.

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

READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:

...(*_*)9781529926729_

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

‘Full of wisdom and comfort' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

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

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?

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 in 2026.

'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

READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:**

‘If you were only to read one book in your life, let it be this one’
n‘Simultaneously simple and deeply profound’
n‘Reading Oliver Burkeman has actually changed my life’
n‘At once mind-bending and worldview-shattering’
n‘The rare kind of self-help book that I think everyone would benefit from’

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