MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS

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 there s 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 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 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 mo