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[Schultes] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed Americas 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 discoveredand of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Schultes 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 progressevidence 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 dont 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 lifea 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.

Author: Brigid Schulte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250062383
Language: English

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