Oliver Burkeman | Meditations for Mortals
Tue 17 Sep 2024 | 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Be amongst the first to hear from the internationally best-selling author of Four Thousand Weeks as he launches his latest life-changing book Meditations for Mortals.
Oliver Burkeman has spent a lifetime understanding what makes a meaningful life which includes a popular weekly column for The Guardian – This Column will Change Your Life, a bi-monthly newsletter, plus many features for the Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher. His latest book takes us on a liberating, invigorating journey towards a more meaningful life – a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence but the reality in which we find ourselves. He looks at themes such as our finite time, the lure of distraction, and the impossibility of perfection and offers a powerful new way to act on what counts in an overwhelming era. Meditation for Mortals will offer a source of solace and inspiration and an aid to a saner, freer and more enchantment filled life.
Join us and let Oliver Burkeman help you embrace your limitations and make time for what counts.
In conversation with Catherine Carr.
Venue: University Arms Hotel
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets available soon.
Author Biography
Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’. His work has also appeared in the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.
Chair Biography
Catherine Carr is an award-winning documentary maker, presenter, podcast producer and reporter with over 20 years’ experience in audio. Her work for BBC Radio 4, The World service and her own company – Pocket Productions – has taken her all over the world, talking to strangers in cities from Japan to the Mexican border and reporting on human interest stories, from child-trafficking in India to the refugee camp in Calais. Carr is the producer for Talking Politics podcast and is presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Exchange. She is the middle child of three, and created a podcast all about siblings – called Relatively – to finally get some attention. She is working on her first book based on her beloved podcast – Relatively, exploring how sibling relationships define us.