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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

by Oliver Burkeman (2024)

About this book

A four-week retreat in book form. Burkeman expands on Four Thousand Weeks with practical daily reflections guiding readers through letting go of perfectionism, choosing chosen suffering, and living fully within mortal limits.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreOliver Burkeman

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