TED Talks Daily Book Club: Embrace your limitations | Oliver Burkeman
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12/07/25
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How can you make your life meaningful with the finite amount of time you have? In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview, host Elise Hu speaks with Oliver Burkeman about his book “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.” They explore Oliver's philosophy of “imperfectionism” and shows how choosing to let go can help you feel more in control.
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Please note, this conversation was recorded live on November 14, 2025, at the TED Countdown House at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, in Belém, Brazil. There are a variety of names mentioned during the conversation of global leaders involved in the convening that took place at COP30, they are as follows (listed in order of mention):
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Marina Silva, Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Kumi Naidoo, South African human rights activist and former director of Greenpeace
Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
Gus Speth, American environmental lawyer
"Mutirão COP30," the Tupi-Guarani term meaning "a collective effort or community mobilization"
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