Aliveness: Getting Things Done in an Age of Bewilderment
Apr 2027 · Random House
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From the international bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals comes a new way to engage with life: aliveness.
‘If there are two people who have changed my life ... then one of them is Oliver Burkeman’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it’ MARK MANSON
‘Oliver is a steersman through sanity and must be read’ DERREN BROWN
The bold successor to Four Thousand Weeks, Aliveness offers its reader, once again, a radically fresh way of engaging with life. It is Oliver Burkeman’s bracing answer to a widely shared, if only half-articulated, discontent: the feeling that in these alarming and uncertain times, something vital has drained out of our everyday lives.
Aliveness is the name of that missing quality: a feeling of vibrancy, clarity, connection and immediacy that’s essential for living an accomplished and creative life – and a life that makes a difference in this deeply unsettling era.
Aliveness is what makes life worth living. It isn’t the same as happiness, because you can feel alive in the midst of challenge or sadness. It’s a quality AI and the robots will never have; it’s what they can’t fake. And our current sense of overwhelm, perma-crisis and threat definitely erodes it.
And so, in an age of doomerism and algorithmic predictability, Oliver Burkeman shows us that the problem isn’t our lack of control but, rather, our desperate clinging to it. His invitation is to ‘unclench’, physically and psychologically, so as to step out of the defensive crouch in which we usually meet the world.
Ultimately, with this book Burkeman shows us how – by learning to relax into reality, embracing spontaneity and imperfect agency, and trusting our own idiosyncratic interests and desires – we can find our way back to feeling more fully and exhilaratingly alive.
Praise for Oliver Burkeman’s previous books
‘Full of wisdom and comfort’ CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN
‘Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living’ EMMA GANNON
‘Every sentence is riven with gold’ CHRIS EVANS
‘Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A practical path towards personal transformation ... a must read’ CAL NEWPORT
‘Bracing and refreshing ... Exactly what our trying times demand’ DANIEL H. PINK
‘If there are two people who have changed my life ... then one of them is Oliver Burkeman’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpected productivity advice exactly when you need it’ MARK MANSON
‘Oliver is a steersman through sanity and must be read’ DERREN BROWN
The bold successor to Four Thousand Weeks, Aliveness offers its reader, once again, a radically fresh way of engaging with life. It is Oliver Burkeman’s bracing answer to a widely shared, if only half-articulated, discontent: the feeling that in these alarming and uncertain times, something vital has drained out of our everyday lives.
Aliveness is the name of that missing quality: a feeling of vibrancy, clarity, connection and immediacy that’s essential for living an accomplished and creative life – and a life that makes a difference in this deeply unsettling era.
Aliveness is what makes life worth living. It isn’t the same as happiness, because you can feel alive in the midst of challenge or sadness. It’s a quality AI and the robots will never have; it’s what they can’t fake. And our current sense of overwhelm, perma-crisis and threat definitely erodes it.
And so, in an age of doomerism and algorithmic predictability, Oliver Burkeman shows us that the problem isn’t our lack of control but, rather, our desperate clinging to it. His invitation is to ‘unclench’, physically and psychologically, so as to step out of the defensive crouch in which we usually meet the world.
Ultimately, with this book Burkeman shows us how – by learning to relax into reality, embracing spontaneity and imperfect agency, and trusting our own idiosyncratic interests and desires – we can find our way back to feeling more fully and exhilaratingly alive.
Praise for Oliver Burkeman’s previous books
‘Full of wisdom and comfort’ CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN
‘Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living’ EMMA GANNON
‘Every sentence is riven with gold’ CHRIS EVANS
‘Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A practical path towards personal transformation ... a must read’ CAL NEWPORT
‘Bracing and refreshing ... Exactly what our trying times demand’ DANIEL H. PINK
From the international bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals comes a new way to engage with life: aliveness.
‘If there are two people who have changed my life ... then one of them is Oliver Burkeman’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Burkeman has a way of giving you the most unexpe...
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About the author
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.
He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.
oliverburkeman.com
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, Psycholo...
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