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The Anti-Hustle Book You Need Today

2025-06-12 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:29 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

In a Short, Ali recommends Oliver Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals, a book he has recommended to many people over the past year: nominally about time management and productivity, it is really about accepting imperfection and your limitations and going easier on yourself.

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00:00:00 — Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman: a book about being okay with imperfection

  • ★★ Ali says Oliver Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals is one of the books he has recommended to a lot of people over the last year or so, and he has filled it with notes and highlights. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Ali says Meditations for Mortals is nominally about time management and productivity, but is really about being okay with imperfection, embracing your limitations and being easier on yourself; he suggests it to anyone who needs to hear that. — 00:00:00 · time management

Mentioned

Central: Meditations for Mortals

Also: Oliver Burkeman · time management

Also centred on Meditations for Mortals: Watch this if you never have enough time

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