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    <title>Meditations for mortals</title>
    <subTitle>four weeks to embrace your limitations and finally make time for what counts</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Picador</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2025</dateIssued>
    <edition>First paperback edition</edition>
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    <extent>xxxvi, 177 pages ; 21 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, it offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls 'imperfectionism'. How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much to do? What if purposeful productivity were often about letting things happen, not making them happen?Reflecting on ideas drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman explores practical tools and shifts in perspective. The result is a bracing challenge to much familiar advice, and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully</abstract>
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