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

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).