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A review by marshmallowbooks
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
“It’s not the emphasis on hard work that’s toxic, but the obsession with it. We now live in a culture in which we are not happy being, and only satisfied when we are doing.”
I have far too confidently said out loud to people, “I am never *not* thinking about work.”
I don’t say it as a badge of pride, but as an indication of how it seems like my mind never turns off. Unfortunately, my mind chooses to continue thinking about work long past the 9-5.
This book was an enlightening look at the cons to that. I don’t say pros because there don’t seem to be any. It doesn’t result in more pay or less burn out or more time off or faster promotion or less work to be done.
It’s just dumb that my mind does it and there is no benefit to doing so and now I need to figure out how to intentionally stop it from thinking about work.
You’d think a book all about doing nothing wouldn’t leave me with a to do list…
I have far too confidently said out loud to people, “I am never *not* thinking about work.”
I don’t say it as a badge of pride, but as an indication of how it seems like my mind never turns off. Unfortunately, my mind chooses to continue thinking about work long past the 9-5.
This book was an enlightening look at the cons to that. I don’t say pros because there don’t seem to be any. It doesn’t result in more pay or less burn out or more time off or faster promotion or less work to be done.
It’s just dumb that my mind does it and there is no benefit to doing so and now I need to figure out how to intentionally stop it from thinking about work.
You’d think a book all about doing nothing wouldn’t leave me with a to do list…