Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts / Oliver Burkeman.
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.
- Copyright: ©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 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.: | Takes readers on a liberating, invigorating journey toward a more meaningful life -- a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves. -- Publisher's description. |
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Subject: | Self-actualization (Psychology) Meditations. |
Genre: | Self-help publications. |
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- 8 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rockville Public Library | 158.12 BUR (Text) | 34035157418209 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 11/23/2024 |