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Brought to you by Penguin. Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living. Our lives can feel defined by the struggle with overwhelm, endless decisions and striving to be productive. Wouldn’t it be good to stop doing all that? What if we could find freedom – and get more of the important...

Brought to you by Penguin. The instant Sunday Times bestseller A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S 75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021 What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts? We're obsessed with our...

Bestselling author Oliver Burkeman is well known for his books and radio programmes exploring how we can lead meaningful and productive lives in an age of overwhelm. This time, he brings his keen sense of the ridiculous to bear on our obsession with convenience, looking at the hidden pitfalls of a life of ease. In these five episodes, Oliver attempts to assess the consequences of our reliance on convenience.

Oliver Burkeman's guides to leading a better life in an age of confusion Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman is well-known for his long-running Guardian column, 'How to Change Your Life', and has written three bestselling books on happiness, productivity and time management. In this radio...

Oliver Burkeman turns decades of self-help advice on its head and paradoxically forces us to rethink our attitudes towards failure, uncertainty and death. It’s our constant efforts to avoid negative thinking that cause us to feel anxious, insecure and unhappy. What if happiness can be found embracing the things we spend our lives trying to escape? Wise, practical and funny, The Antidote is a thought-provoking, counterintuitive and ultimately uplifting listen, celebrating the power of negative thinking.

In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. Bringing their own unique and counter-balanced personalities to proceedings they ask questions such as: what is happiness? Can we make ourselves happier? And why is everyone talking about mindfulness?

There's a ritual of the modern workplace - one you've heard and most likely indulged in yourself. It's the call and response we go through when you ask a workmate how they're doing: "Busy!" "So busy." It is pretty obviously a boast disguised as a complaint. And our simultaneously grim and half...

Writing is important to many of us—for our careers, studies, businesses or creative fulfilment—but sitting down and doing it can feel impossible. We often struggle to give it the attention it deserves. We can't find time. Our focus is torn. Distractions are everywhere. Our inner critic keeps telling us we're no good. But what if you could find a highly effective writing habit that was perfect for you? Bec Evans and Chris Smith have helped thousands of people stop procrastinating, overcome their blocks and reach their writing goals. Now they share their successful approach with you.

Ce livre propose un rituel quotidien, 15 minutes par jour pour prendre rendez-vous avec soi-même. L'objectif ? Arrêter de chercher à être parfait, à justifier notre existence en permanence. Et commencer à vivre, en petites actions concrètes. Dans cet ouvrage entre retraite spirituelle et manuel pratique, Oliver Burkeman explore des outils concrets, des changements de perspective et des conseils venus des grands philosophes, écrivains, psychologues. Il en résulte une philosophie de vie : l'imperfectionnisme.

Oliver Burkeman explores the virtues of negativity and shows how it can be a surprisingly powerful route to joy, success and...

Award-winning journalist and author Oliver Burkeman has written three bestselling books on happiness, productivity and time management. Now, in this thought-provoking radio series, he looks at the way we consume and obsess over the news, and why it's so bad for us. Tracing the origins of the modern news cycle, from the first mass production of newspapers in the 19th century to 24-hour rolling news and the alluring interactivity of social media, he shows how we have gone from a scarcity to a superabundance of information.

Why is everyone so angry nowadays, and what is it doing to the world? In the developed world we live in a blessed epoch, a time and a place where life has never been better. Infant mortality has been all but abolished, we have greater personal choice than ever before, we have access to technology that would have been seen as the stuff of science fiction little more than a decade ago. We are safer and wealthier than at any time in human history. So why are we so damn angry about everything? 

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This program is read by the author. "Burkeman and his irresistible British accent shifted my paradigm a couple centimeters . . . 'The day will never arrive when you have everything under control,' he calmly whispered in my ear, and I think I believed him." -...

Ein durchschnittliches Menschenleben? Nur 4000 Wochen! Die Zeit reicht nicht aus - niemals. Gerade einmal 4000 Wochen haben wir auf der Erde, und das auch nur, wenn wir um die achtzig werden. Kein Wunder, dass wir unaufhörlich versuchen, möglichst viel in diese kurze Zeit hineinzupressen. Und gleichzeitig die Dinge aus dem Blick verlieren, die uns wichtig sind und uns vor allem glücklich machen.

"The philosophical tone of his delivery is perfect." —AudioFile on Four Thousand Weeks This program is read by the author. 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—from...

Brought to you by Penguin. Survive and thrive in uncertain times by listening to the insights and inspirational ideas of world-leading experts on staying calm, focused and in control, brought to you by Penguin. Too much time on your hands? Too busy to think? Too tired to do anything? Too anxious?...

Nous ne disposons que de 4 000 semaines sur Terre, en moyenne. Alors pourquoi gaspillons-nous une si grande partie de ce temps avec des tâches qui ne nous procurent pas de joie ? Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : la durée de vie moyenne de l'être humain est scandaleusement courte. Ceux d'entre nous qui atteignent l'âge de 80 ans n'auront vécu qu'un peu plus de 4 000 semaines. Comment est-il possible de faire des projets ambitieux dans un laps de temps aussi court ?

Wie können wir die Realität unserer Endlichkeit annehmen? Wie treffen wir Entscheidungen und handeln voller Entschlossenheit, wenn es immer zu viel zu tun gibt und Scheitern unvermeidlich ist? Wie finden wir zu einem tieferen Sinn, wenn wir erkennen, dass das Leben kein Problem ist, das es zu lösen gilt? Mithilfe von inspirierenden Erkenntnissen aus Philosophie, Religion, Literatur, Psychologie und Selbsthilfe hat Oliver Burkeman den perfekten Begleiter in einer Zeit der Turbulenzen und allgegenwärtigen Ängste geschaffen.

Lassen Sie uns über Realismus sprechen. Selbsthilfebücher scheinen nicht zu funktionieren, und nur wenige der Vorteile des modernen Lebens sind tatsächlich in der Lage, unsere Stimmung zu heben. Wir können uns nicht einmal darauf einigen, was "Glück" bedeutet. Streben wir also vergeblich danach, oder gehen wir einfach nur den falschen Weg? Oliver Burkeman hinterfragt unser ständiges Bemühen, glücklich zu sein, und zeigt anhand verschiedener Gruppen, die eine überraschende Denkweise teilen, dass es einen alternativen Weg zu Zufriedenheit und Erfolg gibt.