Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the TimeSchulte'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] 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/03/2015
ISBN: 9781250062383
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 04/10/2015 pg. 66
New York Times Book Review 04/12/2015 pg. 28