As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. 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.

Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break? 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. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.ĭespite our constant search for new ways to “hack” 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 work feverishly to make ourselves happy. It is an essential and timely book for all of us.ĭo Nothing How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving This is the book for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere it is the book for those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner. In Speaking of Race, Headlee draws from her experiences as a journalist, and the latest research on bias, communication, and neuroscience to provide practical advice and insight for talking about race that will facilitate better conversations that can actually bring us closer together. If we are to effect meaningful change as a society, Headlee argues, we have to be able to talk about what that change looks like without fear of losing friends and jobs, or being ostracized. Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with empathy does not develop in a vacuum and racism won’t just fade away. To avoid these painful discussions, we stay in our bubbles, reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our division. The subject makes us uncomfortable it’s often not considered polite or appropriate. While many people say they want to talk about race, the reality is, they want to talk about race with people who agree with them. She’s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. In her career as a journalist for public media, she’s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support.Ī self-described “light-skinned Black Jew,” Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race-including having to defend or define her own-since childhood. Speaking of Race Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism-and How to Do It

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