Do Nothing Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Celeste Headlee
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
140

Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee Book Summary

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington
“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.

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Book Name Do Nothing
Genre Social Science
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Language English
E-Book Size 5.5 MB

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i read this book while doing nothing. i just finished it. am i still doing nothing if i’m writing this?

Fantastically-researched. What I love most about this book is that it is chalk-full of history and other research that perfectly articulates both how we arrived with the plight on our hands and how to get out of it.

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Summary of Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee

The Do Nothing book written by Celeste Headlee was published on 10 March 2020, Tuesday in the Social Science category. A total of 140 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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