Meditations for Mortals

A Four Week Guide to Doing What Counts

Oliver Burkeman

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Bodley Head
01 July 2025

Popular philosophy; Psychology; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

From the author of the global bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a liberating four-week journey towards a saner, freer, more meaningful, more enchantment-filled life.

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living.

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.

One day at a time.

By: Oliver Burkeman
Imprint: Bodley Head
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 152g
ISBN: 9781529939538
ISBN 10: 1529939534
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher. He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment. oliverburkeman.com

Reviews for Meditations for Mortals: A Four Week Guide to Doing What Counts

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 *