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TED Talks Daily Book Club: Meditations for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman | TED

How can you make your life meaningful with the finite amount of time you have? In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview, host Elise Hu speaks with Oliver Burkeman on his book “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.” He explores his philosophy of “imperfectionism” and…

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How can you make your life meaningful with the finite amount of time you have? In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview, host Elise Hu speaks with Oliver Burkeman on his book “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.” He explores his philosophy of “imperfectionism” and shows how choosing to let go can help you feel more in control.

The TED Talks Daily Book Club series features TED speakers discussing their latest books and exploring their ideas beyond the page. Stay tuned to our feed for more interviews like this one and for special live book club events open exclusively to TED Members. (Recorded at A TED Original Podcast on November 4, 2025)

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  1. @LetsBeClear87

    January 17, 2026 at 11:03 am

    ✨✨

  2. @snowmanfun4915

    January 17, 2026 at 11:59 am

    𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝

  3. @vikaskhanna8559

    January 17, 2026 at 12:19 pm

    The practice of ‘letting go’ is very effective for minds obsessed by compulsive thinking: you simplify your meditation practice down to just two words – ‘Letting go’ – rather than try to develop this practice and then develop that; and achieve this and go into that, and understand this, and read the Suttas, and study the Abhidhamma … and then learn Pali and Sanskrit … then the Madhyamika and the Prajña Paramita … get ordinations in the Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana … write books and become a world renowned authority on Buddhism.

    Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism and being invited to great International Buddhist Conferences, just ‘let go, let go, let go’.

    Excerpt From
    Cittaviveka
    Ajahn Sumedho

    (Introductory Note to 1992 edition: “Cittaviveka was first published 1983 and has gone through several editions and some modifications since then. The book was not originally conceived purely as a collection of talks on Buddhism, but as textual and pictorial representation of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery [established 1979-81].”)

  4. @잔망뤂히-p3m

    January 17, 2026 at 1:25 pm

    5:30 Perfectionism
    6:10 imperfectionism
    7:50 live the experience instead
    8:40 effect : control life & trying to do everything exactly right squeeze vibrancy and juice of life.
    9:00 German theorist Hart Rosa “resonance”
    12:00 4000 week ?: finite life, focus

  5. @dyhppyx

    January 17, 2026 at 6:53 pm

    Excellent guest choice

  6. @TheMrmoc7

    January 17, 2026 at 8:47 pm

    Great talk. Unfortunately im not sure there is enough time in my finite schedule to read this book, but it seems Im just the kind of person that needs to read this book. God help me.

  7. @kforest2745

    January 19, 2026 at 7:18 am

    YouTube doesn’t create enough meaning in its ads you should tell them that they’re pathetic have you seen the ones lately advertising bras. The latest one started off in a fast-forward mode it was warped, obviously YouTube is twisted it takes money from people fkn around. Every fkn time I close the fkn ad immediately and every fkn time there’s another one. And here’s the thing I already went after YouTube for harassing me with the advertisements that come through the algorithm but now the ads are coming through the videos I click on to watch. Jfc the industry’s repulsive it’s fkn rude and should be shut down the desperation the pushiness is really fkn clear it’s criminal

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