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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
3.87 AVERAGE
650 reviews for:
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
3.87 AVERAGE
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
There were some stuff that I disagreed with or thought there should be more nuance elaborated on, but overall it was an inspiring book! It was definitely a great listen and I’m tempted to get the physical book
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
inspiring
reflective
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
A nice companion to Jenny Odell’s similarly named book. This one focuses on the history behind labor, like how Americans arrived at a forty hour work week, the ethics of work (the church needs your money! So work= moral good), and how being so busy all the time became a status symbol. The last few chapters give tips on unhacking your work life.
It’s like Beyonce said, quit your job! Or at least don’t let it break your soul.
It’s like Beyonce said, quit your job! Or at least don’t let it break your soul.
I have made 225 highlights. I plan to buy this for Father’s Day, for my friends’ birthdays, to casually drop mention of it at every office I work in forever, and to mentally keep a list of every friend who needs a copy after brag-complaining about how busy they are. This book was incredible dissection of contemporary American hustle culture as the inevitable culmination of two centuries worth of anti-human labor policies. We invent machines to complete mundane tasks in less time than any human could achieve, and yet we take all the time saved and use it to work ourselves like machines. Using history, psychology, anthropology, biology and many other disciplines Headlee makes a convincing case that we have lost sight of work as a means to an end, not an end in itself and that our lives, both at work and at home, would be greatly improved if we took back leisure time and made more space for human connection in our schedules. This book was truly excellent from start to finish, the kind I know I’ll probably reread for the rest of my life and never shut up about to everyone I love.
A book that everyone should read for the message it’s telling, but I can’t help thinking that it could have been laid out better. It tends to jump from excellent point to excellent point with only a semblance of planning and forethought. Still, an excellent, and timely look at the way we live and work.
Explores how religion, marketing, and the industrial revolution completely changed our lives, not that long ago! The burnout, stress, income inequality, long hours... it's all relatively new and does not make a lot of sense. It's holding us back and making a few people unconscionably rich. I found the book a bit repetitive at times but the last chapter is so worth it! Thanks to this book, I have no notifications or email on my phone!