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Meditations for Mortals
- Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
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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 there’s 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 F*ck
'Thoughtful, level-headed, and useful ... a book to meditate upon' THE TIMES
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- 10-10-24
Very high wisdom to words ratio
Packed with insightful nuggets. Will come back to it every now and then when I slip into old mental habits.
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- Helen Rodgers
- 17-11-24
Even better than 4 thousand weeks!
I really enjoyed this book - so many of the examples given ring true . I like the relaxing writing style and the references to other writers . I ended up making myself a list of important take hone messages- as there were so many . Thank you Oliver for another great book !
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- julie brimble
- 19-09-24
Letting go
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 .
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- james boal
- 18-10-24
Being finite and beyond!
Oliver Burkeman offers a daily readjustment of our behaviour and thought processes, as well as delivering a well needed refreshing reminder of our finitude and the importance or lack thereof of how we spend our limited time.
Immediately usable suggestions and reframing devices are on offer here. The layout of one chapter a day means you look forward the next days lesson.
One I will return to often. Highly recommend.
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- MR
- 26-10-24
All of it, it is a joy in a world of confusion
Just get it…the content is amazing but Oliver’s narration is perfect. My favourite NF author of the time…..I think so!!
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- Bex
- 31-10-24
An invaluable resource
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'
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- dan
- 04-11-24
Good listen
not life changing but a lovely tickle for the brain, I would assume from listening to this book that's the point.
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- S. Taylor
- 06-10-24
Very relatable writing that we all need to hear
I've loved this book because of the fact that so much of it rings true with the life that we all experience. I also love Oliver's easily approachable writing towards all of his points. my only wish is that it was twice as long because I was sad for it to end.
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- tony
- 28-10-24
Clarity
Beautiful structure constructed to navigate complex human conundrums that have spanned centuries. Prescient and helpful. Simple and deep.
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- Kindle Customer
- 24-09-24
Embrace the moment
Similar to one of his other books, four thousand weeks (which I also recommend). The narration is great and the pacing is fantastic. One of the best authors I’ve read this year and his insights have genuinely positively affected my outlook.
The main philosophy of this book is living more in the present as the future is promised to no one. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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