A four-week journey to embracing your limitations, thriving in an age of bewilderment, and finally making time for what counts. Burkeman brings the themes and questions of time, mortality, imperfection, productivity, and how to live fully and deeply even when things are most challenging--into the heart of our daily lives. How do we embrace the reality of our finiteness? How do we make decisions and act with conviction when there is always too much to do and failure is inevitable? How do we find a deeper sense of purpose when we realize that life is not a problem to be solved? How does care for others make us more free? Comprised of four weeks of extended reflections on inspiring quotations--drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help--Burkeman's book is a crash course in living meaningfully.