{"product_id":"meditations-for-mortals-four-weeks-to-embrace-your-limitations-and-make-time-for-what-counts","title":"Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, by Oliver Burkeman","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMeditations for Mortals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides useful answers to the questions of when and why you should give up: you should do it when your optimized, productivity-hacked life starts to feel constricting, deadening, or unrealistic, so that you can get more value out of your all-too-brief existence.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―Joshua Rothman,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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―from the New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFour Thousand Weeks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice―and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings, \u003cem\u003eMeditations for Mortals\u003c\/em\u003e will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59327093866841,"sku":"Shelf X 4","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9780374611996.jpg?v=1788764203","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/meditations-for-mortals-four-weeks-to-embrace-your-limitations-and-make-time-for-what-counts","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}