Often the real challenge, in building an accomplished and absorbing life, is learning to let go.

It’s often more helpful to ask: What if this task might be a lot easier than I’d been assuming?

For finite humans, the time for that has to be now.The future destroys the present.

Completion of any task replenishes energy, rather than using it up.

In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything except the battles you’ve chosen to fight.

You’re pretty much free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.To make a decision – any decision – is to take ownership of the situation instead.

Beyond the mountains, there are always more mountains, at least until you reach the final mountain before your time on earth comes to an end.In the meantime, few things are more exhilarating than mountaineering.

When you start to view each day not as a matter of paying off a debt, but as an opportunity to move a small-but-meaningful number of items over your done list, you’ll find yourself making better choices about what to focus on.

Accepting your limitations, stepping more fully into them, is precisely how you build a saner, freer, more accomplished, socially connected and enchantment-filled life.

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The truth is that no work you bring into concrete existence could ever meet the perfect standards in your mind.

The only two questions, at any moment of choice in life, is what the price is, and whether or not it’s worth paying.

The main difference between those who accomplish great things anyway and those who don’t is that the former don’t mind not knowing.

12 Powerful Lessons from “Meditations for Mortals”

A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life—a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be—from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks 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.

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