Do Nothing
How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
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Do Nothing
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Celeste Headlee
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“This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
Despite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break?
In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost—we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine what is truly worthwhile.
Pulling together threads from history, neuroscience, social science, and even paleontology, Headlee examines long-held assumptions about time use, idleness, hard work, and even our ultimate goals. Her research reveals that the habits we cling to are doing us harm; they developed recently in human history, which means they are habits that can, and must, be broken. It’s time to reverse the trend that’s making us all sadder, sicker, and less productive, and return to a way of life that allows us to thrive.
Aussi je pense qu'aujourd'hui ce n'est jamais assez. Sauf que les gens en ont eu assez. C'est pour ça qu'il a tellement de pénurie de main-d'oeuvre.
Vu qu'on a trop souvent pas pensé à nous. On appelle ça le karma.
C'est un livre à écouter et à écouter de nouveau de temps à autre. Pour réaliser qu'il y a moyen de changer les choses pour le mieux.
Personnellement je trouve que je travaille beaucoup trop pour n'avoir pas grand chose à la fin.
Aussi ce livre me dit ce qui est important et ce qui n'est pas important au niveau technologique.
On en a vraiment besoin.
Très intéressant comme livre
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Brilliant, well said.
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Best Book I've listened to in a long time
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Life changing!
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Informative!
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