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Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.

Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.

Update: 2024-10-31
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In his mega-bestseller “Four Thousand Weeks,” Oliver Burkeman showed that the shortness of life “isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief.” Now, in “Meditations for Mortals,” he invites us to embrace what he calls “imperfectionism.” Accept your limitations, your finitude, your lack of control — because “the more we try to render the world controllable,” he warns, “the more it eludes us; and the more daily life loses … its resonance, its capacity to touch, move and absorb us.”

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Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.

Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.

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