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"[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back?"-Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered-and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Schulte's findings are illuminating, puzzling, and, at times, maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progress-evidence that what the ancient Greeks called "the good life" is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don't equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figured out how to share responsibilities. Enlivened by personal anecdotes, humor, and hope, Overwhelmed is a book about modern life-a revelation of the misguided beliefs and real stresses that have made leisure feel like a thing of the past, and of how we can find time for it in the present.
"[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back?"-Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discovered-and of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Schulte's findings are illuminating, puzzling, and, at times, maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progress-evidence that what the ancient Greeks called "the good life" is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don't equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figured out how to share responsibilities. Enlivened by personal anecdotes, humor, and hope, Overwhelmed is a book about modern life-a revelation of the misguided beliefs and real stresses that have made leisure feel like a thing of the past, and of how we can find time for it in the present.
CONTENTS
Preface to the 2015 Edition xi
Part One: Time Confetti
1. The Test of Time 3
2. Leisure Is for Nuns 21
3. Too Busy to Live 41
4. The Incredible Shrinking Brain 56
Part Two: Work
5. The Ideal Worker Is Not Your Mother 71
6. A Tale of Two Pats 97
Bright Spot: Starting Small 117
7. When Work Works 123
Bright Spot: If the Pentagon Can Do It, Why Cant You? 145
Part Three: Love
8. The Stalled Gender Revolution 153
9. The Cult of Intensive Motherhood 172
Bright Spot: Mother Nature 190
10. Dads Want to Have It All, Too 197
Bright Spot: Gritty, Happy Kids 205
Part Four: Play
11. Hygge in Denmark 213
12. Let Us Play 232
Bright Spot: Really Plan a Vacation 249
Part Five: Toward Time Serenity
13. Finding Time 255
Bright Spot: Time Horizons 272
14. Toward Time Serenity 274
Appendix: Do One Thing 279
Notes 287
Acknowledgments 335
Index 341
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250062383 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250062381 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schulte, Brigid |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 210 x 139 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Brigid Schulte |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.03.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,503 kg |
CONTENTS
Preface to the 2015 Edition xi
Part One: Time Confetti
1. The Test of Time 3
2. Leisure Is for Nuns 21
3. Too Busy to Live 41
4. The Incredible Shrinking Brain 56
Part Two: Work
5. The Ideal Worker Is Not Your Mother 71
6. A Tale of Two Pats 97
Bright Spot: Starting Small 117
7. When Work Works 123
Bright Spot: If the Pentagon Can Do It, Why Cant You? 145
Part Three: Love
8. The Stalled Gender Revolution 153
9. The Cult of Intensive Motherhood 172
Bright Spot: Mother Nature 190
10. Dads Want to Have It All, Too 197
Bright Spot: Gritty, Happy Kids 205
Part Four: Play
11. Hygge in Denmark 213
12. Let Us Play 232
Bright Spot: Really Plan a Vacation 249
Part Five: Toward Time Serenity
13. Finding Time 255
Bright Spot: Time Horizons 272
14. Toward Time Serenity 274
Appendix: Do One Thing 279
Notes 287
Acknowledgments 335
Index 341
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250062383 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250062381 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schulte, Brigid |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 210 x 139 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Brigid Schulte |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.03.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,503 kg |
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