Meditations for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Oliver Burkeman worked for many years at The Guardian, where he wrote a popular weekly column on psychology, “This Column Will Change Your Life.” His books include the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.

Oliver's new book Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts is described as "A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life―a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be". It's available no in stores and online.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:11.6	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,
0:17.9	change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live
0:22.5	by and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,
0:29.3	motivate and inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and
0:34.7	professional goals.
0:39.5	Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast.
0:42.9	I am so happy to be recording this episode today.
0:45.8	I'm back in London in a Soho studio,
0:47.5	and I'm joined by a guest today that I have wanted to have on this podcast for years.
0:51.0	The brilliant Oliver Berkman.
0:52.7	Welcome to the podcast.
0:54.0	Thank you very much. And Oliver,
0:56.1	as if that wasn't enough, I didn't mention this to you before, today is also my birthday.
1:01.6	Amazing. But well, it's my birthday and so I've got cake for us. And because it's your publication
1:06.4	day, your new book is out today. I was like, this is perfect. We've got cake. It's going to be
1:10.4	great. It's fantastic. And It's going to be great.
1:17.2	It's fantastic. And it's, uh, it's my birthday next week. So are we both, um, Virgos, sort of slightly fixated with schedules and routines and lists and things like that. And apparently this someone said to me
1:23.1	once, oh, Virgos don't believe in star signs. And I'd literally just roll my eyes when she started talking about
1:28.0	Star Songs. Yeah. Yeah. I fall into that category too. I think. There we go. So happy publication
1:33.4	date to you and we're not going to have the cake now. No, but happy birthday. It's great. This is,
1:38.2	this is fantastic. We'll have at the end. All right. So let's dive into the interview. So Oliver, I'm sure that you will have
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