Meditations for Mortals
book by Oliver Burkeman
Reading notes assembled from various encounters with this book, the moments that registered most, the ideas that persisted, the passages worth returning to.
wild and unruly
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Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkehead
My conversations helped me recognise a deeper issue, too, which is the way our ceaseless efforts to get into the driver’s seat of life seem to sap it of the very sense of aliveness that makes it worth living in the first place.