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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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Your happier, freer and more fulfilling life starts today!
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--k
'Meditations for Mortals offers a practical path toward personal transformation … A must-read' CAL NEWPORT, author of Slow Productivity
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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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- Kindle Customer
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Mark
- 16-09-24
A modern Alan Watts retreat in a book
A brilliant listen, 28 often simple yet profound ways to look at life from a different perspective. This is one for those who like to think deeply about life and living with meaning. Once you realise you're free you have to figure out what to do with that freedom, the personal development wisdom contained in this book will help.
Sorry Oliver, I didn't follow the 28-week structure, more imperfectionism. Based on his words alone, I'll risk a judgement that Oliver lives from the perspective of a defensive pessimist compared to my more realistic optimist view. However, just as with his earlier book The Antidote it really doesn't matter where you start you're almost certain to encounter these timeless ideas on any personal development journey. Somehow we've been on a similar journey despite the different departure point.
Of the meditations I found 'dailyish', 'what if it were easy' and 'scruffy hospitality' some of the most immediately useful. The deeper thinking on 'giving it a go' (because we'll never be fully ready) feeling like we belong and finding the life task made me think most deeply of all. The need for self-compassion and stopping being your own worst enemy made me smile, I've been on that journey too. It's much better on the other side. The ideas here could well trigger a few interesting reactions for those starting out on their personal growth adventure.
The meditations span so many fields of personal development from stoicism and 'the obstacle is the way' to Jack Kornfield's self-compassion along with the timeless wisdom of Alan Watts.
The only way this audiobook could have been better is if there was more of it. I hope there will be a second set of mediations.
Oliver, thanks for sharing your journey with us and admitting that you wrote this for yourself, we often teach what we seek.
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- Stone and Blue Ltd
- 20-09-24
Great perspective
I loved 4000 weeks and The Antidote, and this was more great stuff along similar lines! Go Oliver!
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- Lynette
- 10-10-24
Life changing
4000 Weeks was a tough book to follow up, but this is even better. Do as he says and just take it one chapter a day. Sit with it, absorb the message and feel yourself unclench. Amazing.
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