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What triggers you these days? We cannot mention anything anymore without it detonating someone somewhere."Fantasy football?" "THE KNEES, OH THE KNEEEEEEESSSS.""My kid's starting preschool..." "CRITICAL RACE THEORY." "I'm going over they're." "THERE."My current trigger is the idea that I was born to work 40+ hours a week and GRIND my way to the top. Hard work work work work work. Then, eh, play. Last summer, I built myself a website and did some freelance projects on top of my full-time job befor...
This was a title that grabbed my attention as I’m someone who has to always be doing something, even in my leisure time whether it’s hiking, reading, cooking or even a puzzle. So I wanted to learn more on the concept of “doing nothing”. This book brings home the value of down time or leisure time and how it contributes to a healthier way of managing stress. It includes studies to back it up. So instead of feeling guilty about that “one more chapter” or “just chillin”, I will actually feel produc...
This was a difficult read for me. I'm used to read fiction, and there is a lot of facts to assimilate in this book. It's not a bad read. It's incredibly well-researched (in neuroscience, evolutionary biology and primatology), and I loved to read all the historical data and facts given in the first section of the book. However, I would have appreciated to have more solutions, or maybe more alternatives to those Headlee is offering, because the most important ones, in my opinion, can't be done whe...
HIGHLIGHTS:1. HISTORY: We used to temper long hours with equal amounts of leisure and social gatherings.- Everything we think we know about work, efficiency, and leisure is relatively recent and very possibly wrong.- Leisure began to feel stressful. In the back of their minds, people worried about the money they were not making.2. POLLUTED TIME: this is a phenomenon caused by having to handle work duties during off-hours, being on call, or even having to think carefully about work issues or prob...
"Having no clear understanding of how you spend your time can leave you feeling more overwhelmed than necessary, which can cause you to make decisions that lead to more stress and anxiety, which feeds the sense that you're pressed for time, and you end up feeling more overwhelmed than necessary."This was surprisingly a worth it read.I thought it be just another non-fiction book advice or self help on how to not overwork.But it definitely was more than that.80% of the book focus on theories, tech...
Quite interesting, I wish I only worked 40 hours a week and I don’t even have children. Everyone should listen to this it makes your brains wheels turn.
skirts around the root problem of all the issues it covers—capitalism.
4.5 stars - I loved that this book tackles both macro level thinking on this topic (e.g. the history of labor relations, rising cost of time in dollars leading to a higher perceived cost of leisure, etc.) and specific, tactical suggestions on how to pursue restorative idleness. This is also the kind of nonfiction that invites you to dive more into threads it brings up that you may be interested in further exploring. All around, thought provoking (and solid audiobook read by author)
Do Nothing is an excellent, well-researched interrogation on our culture’s obsession with overwork and efficiency, and the ways it stifles creativity and actual productivity and leads to a lower quality of life.Headlee gives a great historical foundation and context for how American culture came to be so obsessed work and busyness. She also cites study after study on how working longer hours actually leads to decreased productivity. More importantly, and perhaps more surprising, she cites loads
The author is a speaker of a popular TEDTalk on ways to have a better conversation. Oftentimes when a TEDTalk goes viral, the speaker is encouraged to write a book to explore the topic further. Her target audience is the 40-hour salaried office worker in the US. The book begins on the history of work hours and time off. This was the most interesting part of the book for me; the remainder fell short. In the last half of the book, the author placed excessive emphasis on her personal journey, which...
This book might be useful for a small group of people: ones who work in an office environment (excluding medical offices and such), who are workaholics and also work hard and not smart. MAYBE they can get something out of this book.The first part of the book is basically history of labor, which was quite interesting (probably the reason why I gave it 2 stars instead of one), I enjoyed that part for a while, but that it became repetitive and it felt like I was reading a history book.The author ta...
This book was honestly a wake up call for me.
Celeste Headlee wrote an outstanding book on communication entitled "We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter." Because I found that book so compelling, I was excited to find out that she’d written another book. "Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving" decries the American “hustle” culture. Much of this book is spent reviewing sociological and psychological influences that drive Americans' work ethic. Headlee does not decry the legitimate need to...
The best parts were where the author covered the history of work practices
