Meditations for mortals : four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Physical Description
xxvi, 177 pages ; 22 cm
Contents
- 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 for 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.