I've spent the past few years fascinated by work and our relationship to it. I've followed some of these tenets in my own life and I plan to work through the rest going forward. Either way, I want to emphasize that the advice she gives is really great: easy to grasp, logical, and easy to implement. The author notes that people who are scraping by with multiple jobs or otherwise under dire straits may not be able to do much with some of her advice she empathizes based on her years of living paycheck-to-paycheck, though I felt the acute absence of commentary here on class and precariousness. To that end, the second half of the book is full of simple, practical advice that just about anyone could adopt into their own lives to establish healthy separation between work and leisure. While some of us (like me) really love to get into the weeds on history, I think Headlee struck the right balance between breadth and depth this is meant to be a short and helpful handbook, not an exhaustive dissertation. The author spends the first part of the book identifying and describing the shape, history, and manifestations of our problematic individual relationships with work and productivity culture. Do Nothing is a succinct, clear, well-articulated argument against productivity for productivity's sake and in favor of restructuring our individual lives and our broader society to prize connection, leisure, and kindness above hustle, grind, and perfection.
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