Oliver Burkeman for Meditations for Mortals
Wednesday 6th November
St Cuthbert's Church, 5 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2EP
7pm
7.30pm
Your happier, freer and more fulfilling life starts today! Join us and bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman to learn how to safely dive into real life and find inspiration for a more enchantment-filled way of living.
Meditations for Mortals
Meditations for Mortals takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life - one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves. Designed as a four-week 'retreat of the mind', it offers daily wisdom, solace and inspiration to aid a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled way of living.
Addressing fundamental questions about how to live, Oliver Burkeman proposes a powerful new guiding philosophy of 'imperfectionism'. How can we embrace our limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much to do? What if being truly productive means letting things happen, not making them happen?
Reflecting on philosophy, literature, psychology, religion 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.
About Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.