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Podcast: Eat Move Think
Episode: Do Nothing with Celeste Headlee (Part 1)
Description: The British philosopher Bertrand Russell called it "the cult of efficiency"—the drive among high-performers to accomplish more, to be productive, to work. But lately that cult has been pushing more people to burnout and languishing. What's going on? In evolutionary terms, the cult of efficiency is a recent invention that contradicts the way humans have survived for millennia, according to Celeste Headlee, author of the book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. In part one of a special two-part episode, Headlee joins Dr. Jack Muskat, Medcan's clinical director of mental health, to discuss ho...