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647 reviews for:
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
3.87 AVERAGE
647 reviews for:
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
3.87 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
While there is a decent amount of information in this book that I already knew or that is somewhat intuitive, for the latter I appreciated having the science and data to back it up, and for the former it this served as a good reminder. It was also nice to have all of this, as well as new information, all in one handy one to reference. Headlee does a nice job of offering suggestions and ideas without putting on pressure to make huge changes. I think the book offers all of us a chance to reflect on our relationship with work, to find ways to retake our time for ourselves, and to remember that things have not always been as they currently are, nor must they stay this way.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Interesting mix of reclaim your life from social media and other distractions and the antiwork subreddit. However, could have been a LOT shorter - many arguments are rehashed, when it would be simpler to talk about cases that work. This is one of those books that is 70% stating the problem, 20% stating possible solutions and 10% restating the problem.
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Super interesting to read the history in the beginning, but hard to push through at times.
A good blend of historical and personal. As these books tend to go, I find the ending to be too idealistic and vague but still a good read for many of us. This book mostly applies to salaried workers who put in overtime, so the scope is narrower but the lessons still important
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late January.
A treatise on not working so hard, against the fear of not getting enough done, the assumption that wealth means ease, feeling guilty for the times that we’re not busy or overbooked, wasting our profitable time doing tasks that surround a goal before actually completing it, and advancing too far forward as a society that it’s too difficult to look back. Instead, Headlee highlights the need to ration time in order to slow down, engage in verbal communication, and dial back on the tendency for perfectionism. She is incredibly easy to empathize with, chiefly due to a viewpoint that explains complaint in a way that doesn’t lean overtly into self-help (i.e. wanting to point you in the direction towards improvement, rather than pull you to it).
A treatise on not working so hard, against the fear of not getting enough done, the assumption that wealth means ease, feeling guilty for the times that we’re not busy or overbooked, wasting our profitable time doing tasks that surround a goal before actually completing it, and advancing too far forward as a society that it’s too difficult to look back. Instead, Headlee highlights the need to ration time in order to slow down, engage in verbal communication, and dial back on the tendency for perfectionism. She is incredibly easy to empathize with, chiefly due to a viewpoint that explains complaint in a way that doesn’t lean overtly into self-help (i.e. wanting to point you in the direction towards improvement, rather than pull you to it).
informative
medium-paced