The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

Meditations for Mortals w/Oliver Burkeman


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Ohhhh, do I have a treat for you today. There are a few books that I recommend to clients, students, friends, family, people in line at the grocery store, you name it...and THIS guy has done it again. Oliver Burkeman is the author of the NYT Bestseller Four Thousand Weeks (that's the one I've been known to push into the hands of anyone who will listen) and he's back at it with the just-released Meditations for Mortals.

And this week's episode of ​The Transforming Anxiety Podcast​ is an interview with Mr. Burkeman.

A few nuggets from new book:

"The whole point of facing the truth about finitude is that it gets easier to spend more of your time on worthwhile and life-enriching activities once you're no longer trying to do all of them, or do them perfectly, or do them with the secret agenda of achieving a feeling of security or control."

And this is another great quote...

"...the life-enhancing route is to think of decisions not as things that come along, but as things to go hunting for. In other words: to operate on the assumption that somewhere, in the confusing morass of your work or your life, lurks at least one decision you could make, right now, in order to get unstuck and get moving."

This is a really great conversation and I'm thrilled he spent some time with us. You can find the video ​HERE​ and audio is in your podcast feed or ​over on the website​.

Find out more about Mr. Burkeman, all of his books and other work, plus get subscribed to his newsletter, The Imperfectionist, by visiting: ​www.oliverburkeman.com​.

Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/276

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