Meditations for Mortals
Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:3rd Jul '25
£10.99
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Banish burnout. Choose calm. Embrace life. One day at a time.
‘Full of wisdom and comfort … a really important book'CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of Ultra-Processed People
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 profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.
'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 F*ck
'Meditations for Mortals offers a practical path toward personal transformation … A must-read' CAL NEWPORT, author of Slow Productivity
Thoughtful, level-headed and useful ... a book to meditate upon * The Times *
I'm sceptical about self-help - but a four-week 'mind retreat' changed me ... [Meditations for Mortals] teems with good sense, sensibly dispensed * i *
A bracing read ... I'd bet that his audience will finish it in one sitting ... uplifting * FT *
Illuminating ... Burkeman's insight [is] always clear-eyed and jargon-free ... reassuring and constructive * Guardian *
Full of wise advice on not getting overburdened by work * The Times *
Life-changing * Stylist *
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
ISBN: 9781529939538
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
208 pages