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Podcast: New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing
Episode: Need A Break from Overworking and Underliving?
Description: Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
How a devotion to efficiency can become unhealthy
Why leisure time (a.k.a. doing nothing) is essential
How to reclaim our time and humanity
· A discussion of the book Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Today’s book is: Do Nothing, by Celeste Headlee, which examines how in searching for ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, people are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the abso...