Reviews - Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

My disappointment with this book was that the majority of it was about why we are burnt out and the history of how. The part on how to live more free without feeling bad for it seemed rushed and squeezed into the ending. It ends with just a quick list that that’s probably only helpful for some.

mxdatura's review against another edition

3.0

Enjoyed it and I'm truly going to employ the practices written here in my own life but chapter 8 left me so tilted hbb why Chomsky?

reedg's review against another edition

3.0

informative reflective fast-paced

shhhh_shereading's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring reflective

silentlysings's review against another edition

4.0

"It’s not just about bigger salaries that bring bigger houses and cars, either. We have absorbed this worship of constant growth into our very psyches. We believe we can and should be constantly working toward our individual improvement, constantly tinkering and improving ourselves. We believe there is no crest on this mountain. While it may feel that the forces that have brought us to this era of distraction—time pressure, intense productivity, and obsessive efficiency—are too strong and pervasive to be countered, the truth is that the demand for long hours and forced productivity is relatively recent. The past two hundred years are a mere blink in the long stare of our species’ evolution. We can choose to return to a style of living that’s more likely to help us thrive. We can develop new habits that better suit our innate need to belong, our thirst for companionship, and our ability to imagine incredible things through a focused mind."

A really nice read overall.