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Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts / Oliver Burkeman.

Burkeman, Oliver, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374611996
  • ISBN: 0374611998
  • 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.
Subject: Self-actualization (Psychology)
Meditations.
Genre: Self-help publications.

Available copies

  • 3 of 5 copies available at York County Libraries.

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Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 158.1 BUR Nonfiction (Text) 34001001473162 Adult Area New Available -
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Bookplate: Plated 2024: In Honor of The Eichelberger Class of 1953
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