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

Bridget Schulte wrote this book, Overwhelmed, and it's one of my favorite.

And she talked about the plague of busyness and how research shows that we all hate our lives with on the merry-go-round. We can't get off. We're just always busy, yet we keep leaning in more and grabbing more.

Well it's not just an economic argument life with too much can be almost insufferable and the stories you know I was pulling some examples from British Holidays book. Overwhelmed overloaded overwork as she tells some heartbreaking stories in that book right of a period in her life where she was overloaded in her work and how this really strained her as a mother some heartbreaking examples of you know her daughter saying when I grow up I want to be a teacher so at least then I can be around my kids right all these it's heartbreak heartbreaking stuff and I don't want to get away from that emotional core of doing less as well there's a reason to do less this not just about economic instrumentalism if it's possible and you have the ability to engineer this in your life of the circumstances happen to be there it's worth doing also because it's a better life and we don't talk about enough and we're doing it more now which is good but we have an issue productivity era talked about enough the cost of overload it's not just yeah this is worked you got to get after it let's do it you know high five it's not just that there is a real there is a real cost so that interlude was a check against myself not to get too caught up in just the economic contrary and is them.