2024-10-10
54 分钟Are you tired of feeling like you're constantly behind, struggling to get on top of everything? In this thought-provoking conversation, Oliver Burkeman, author of Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, offers a radically different perspective. Discover how accepting your human limitations can paradoxically lead to more presence, ease, and meaning in your daily life. Burkeman shares insights on making powerful micro-decisions, developing a "taste for problems," reframing interruptions as opportunities, and showing up fully for the richness of each moment - without waiting for some future "sorted" state. Prepare to rethink productivity and uncover the liberation in truly inhabiting your finitude. You can find Oliver at: Website | X | Episode Transcript If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with Tara Brach about being present to life’s moments. Check out our offerings & partners: Join My New Writing Project: Awake at the WheelVisit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount Codes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You can be incredibly ambitious if that's what you want for your life within the frame of acknowledging the reality of limitation.
It's when you spend all your energy and time and focus trying to fight your way out of those limitations.
I think that you don't get to focus on the things that matter the most.
So I first discovered Oliver Bergman's work through his book 4000 weeks, which was this real wake up call for me.
The idea that the average person has something like 4000 weeks to live helped me look at my time on the planet just differently and refocus me on how to use it well.
So I was so excited when I saw that he had a new book out called Meditations for Mortals.
Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts.
It's a series of short, provocative ideas and essays and thought prompts designed to really give you new ways to look at all the different aspects of your life.
And it's a powerful reframing of how we approach the often relentless demands and expectations of daily life.
So imagine you could wake up tomorrow with a completely new perspective.
One that didn't see your human limitations as obstacles to overcome, but as the very portals to a life of deeper presence and meaning and fulfillment.
What if embracing your finite nature as a mortal human was actually the key to living an extraordinary existence right here, right now?
In this thought provoking conversation, we explore Oliver's perspective on confronting fears through action rather than avoidance.
Developing an almost contrarian taste for problems, reframing so called interruptions as simply life happening around you and so many other rich ideas.
We explore the surprising liberation in realizing you'll never have it all perfectly figured out.
And the powerful invitation to fully show up for your delightfully imperfect yet extraordinary existence.
So if you're craving more authentic presence and fulfillment and even ease amidst the chaos of daily life, get ready to rethink some deeply held assumptions.
Oliver's meditations offer a really refreshing counterweight to our cultural obsession with grinding and optimizing and pursuing some future ideal of having finally, quote, made it.
Instead, he makes a compelling case for accepting your inescapable human limitations as the catalyst for truly inhabiting the confines of the one precious reality you actually have this present moment.
So excited to share this conversation with you.