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Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Four Thousand Weeks

10 experts show you how to be more mindful, calm and focused

The Here and Now

and how it can be a powerful route to joy, success and satisfaction

The Power of Negative Thinking

And what is it doing to the world?

Why Are We So Angry?

Why life has got so hectic

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How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks

The Antidote

A Creative Workbook

How to Be Happy (or at least less sad)

Meditations for Mortals

Thoughtful, level-headed and useful ... a book to meditate upon

I'm sceptical about self-help - but a four-week 'mind retreat' changed me ... [<i>Meditations for Mortals</i>] teems with good sense, sensibly dispensed

A bracing read ... I'd bet that his audience will finish it in one sitting ... uplifting

Illuminating ... Burkeman's insight [is] always clear-eyed and jargon-free ... reassuring and constructive

Full of wise advice on not getting overburdened by work

Oliver Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it

Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Full of wisdom and comfort. I enjoyed every page and read it in a single sitting. This is a really important book about embracing truth and reality

Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People

A very special book. We should all read this - for the sake of our aching world as well as the state of our souls

A practical path towards personal transformation. A must-read

Bracing and refreshing ... This book is both a comfort and a challenge — exactly what our trying times demand

Daniel H. Pink, author of The Power of Regret

A delightful, engaging, rigorous and reassuring book – so intelligent and questing and intimate. I read it in one go. The world would be a better and less frightening place if more people would stop what they are doing and read this book

Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down

A deeply helpful reflection on how to permit our lives a sigh of relief. Moments stopped me in my tracks. Oliver is a steersman through sanity and must be read alongside any attempts at self-improvement

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