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Barcode	30293102269672
Status	In Processing
Location	Clark County
Call No	158.12 Burk
Title	Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts / Oliver Burkeman.
Author	Burkeman, Oliver, author.
Collection	NF
Total Circ	0
NumReserves	0

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Location	Barcode	Call No	Created On	Issue Name	Circ Status	Temp Loc
Clark County	30293102269672	158.12 Burk	10/29/2024		In Processing

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number	9780374611996 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number	0374611998 (hardcover)
Personal Name	Burkeman, Oliver, author.
Title Statement	Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts / Oliver Burkeman.
Edition Statement	First American edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Physical Description	xxvi, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note	"Parts of this book have previously appeared in the author's email newsletter, The Imperfectionist."--Title page verso.
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 or 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.
Summary, Etc.	Addressing 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. 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. To be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals 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.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	Self-actualization (Psychology)
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	Meditations.
Index Term-Genre/Form	Self-help publications.

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