Do nothing : how to break away from overworking, overdoing, and underliving / Celeste Headlee.

By:

Headlee, Celeste Anne, 1969- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Harmony Books, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 268 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781984824752

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

158 H344d 23

LOC classification:

BJ1498 .H385 2020

Contents:

Part I: The cult of efficiency -- Mind the gap -- It starts with a steam engine -- Work ethic -- Time becomes money -- Works come home -- The busiest gender -- Do we live to work -- Universal human nature -- Is tech to blame -- Part II: Leaving the cult - how to go from life hack to life back -- Challenge your perceptions -- Take the media out of your social -- Step away from your desk -- Invest in leisure -- Make real connections -- Take the long view.

Summary: "We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to "hack" 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. This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to "hack" 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. This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"-- Provided by publisher.

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