Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts / Oliver Burkeman.
A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life-a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we'd like to be. How can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much to do? How do we shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can "get on top of everything"? Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman explores a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice-and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374611996
- ISBN: 0374611998
- ISBN: 9781250397676
- Physical Description: xxvi, 177 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: The imperfect life -- Week One: Being finite. Day One: It's worse than you think ; Day Two: Kayaks and superyachts ; Day Three: You need only face the consequences ; Day Four: Against productivity debt ; Day Five: Too much information ; Day Six: You can't care about everything ; Day Seven: Let the future be the future -- Week Two: Taking action. Day eight: Decision-hunting ; Day Nine: Finish things ; Day Ten: Look for the life task ; Day Eleven: Just go to the shed ; Day Twelve: Rules that serve life ; Day Thirteen: Three hours ; Day Fourteen: Develop a taste for problems -- Week Three: Letting go. Day fifteen: What if this were easy? ; Day Sixteen: The reverse golden rule ; Day Seventeen: Don't stand in generosity's way ; Day Eighteen: Allow other people their problems ; Day Nineteen: A good time for a good story ; Day Twenty: Set a quantity goal ; Day Twenty-one: What's an interruption, anyway? -- Week Four: Showing up. Day Twenty-two: Stop being so kind to future you ; Day Twenty-three: How to start from sanity ; Day Twenty-four: Scruffy hospitality ; Day Twenty-five: You can't hoard life ; Day Twenty-six: Inconceivable ; Day Twenty-seven: C'est fait par du monde ; Day Twenty-eight: What matters -- Epilogue: Imperfectly onward -- Acknowledgments -- Further reading -- Index of afflictions.
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- Subject:
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
Meditations. - Genre:
- Self-help publications.
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- 24 of 30 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 30 total copies.
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| Marion Library | 158.12 BUR (Text) | 37810435828099 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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