Meditations for Mortals
A Four Week Guide to Doing What Counts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st May '25
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781847927613)
Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.
‘Full of wisdom and comfort' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN
‘A practical path toward personal transformation… A must-read' CAL NEWPORT
Our lives can feel defined by the struggle with overwhelm, endless decisions and striving to be productive. Wouldn’t it be good to stop doing all that? What if we could find freedom – and get more of the important things done – by embracing our limitations, and by letting things happen instead of forcing them?
Meditations for Mortals begins with the reality in which we actually find ourselves, not with fantasies of an ideal existence. Reflecting on ideas from philosophy, religion, psychology and self-help, it offers us a powerful and practical new way to do what counts: a guiding outlook Oliver Burkeman calls ‘imperfectionism’.
This book is a profound and liberating crash course in living more fully. It overturns much familiar advice and opens a gateway to a saner, freer and more enchantment-filled life.
'If there are two people who have changed my life...then one of them is Oliver Burkeman' PANDORA SYKES
'Oliver Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it’ MARK MANSON
READERS LOVE MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS:
‘If you were only to read one book in your life, let it be this one’
‘Simultaneously simple and deeply profound’
‘Reading Oliver Burkeman has actually changed my life’
‘At once mind-bending and worldview-shattering’
‘The rare kind of self-help book that I think everyone would benefit from’
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 14mm
Weight: 152g
208 pages