Once upon a time, being idle was considered the thing. The higher your status, the further away from that kind of drudgery you got in daily life. And it's interesting that that flipped so much on its head. In the 19 fifties, there were people who were looking at how productive we were world wer toa looking at all the income gains. They just figured, boy, we have got it wired by the ounow by now.
Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. Brigid is a regular contributor to the She The People blog and has written for Style, Outlook, and other outlets. She writes about work-life issues and poverty, seeking to understand what it takes to live a good life across race, class, and gender. Her recent book is called “Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time“.
In this episode, Eric and Brigid discuss the common struggles and strategies for dealing with being overwhelmed.
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Brigid Schulte and I Discuss Strategies for When You’re Overwhelmed and…
- Her book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
- Defining “The Overwhelm”
- How our perception of time and stress negatively affect the brain
- The internal and external pressures to do too much.
- The history of leisure and idleness and how it is now
- The two qualities of leisure: choosing the activity and having control of your time
- Contaminated time is when you’re caught up in your thoughts
- Mindfulness as a powerful tool to deal with overwhelm
- The challenges and learning to handle ambiguity
- Broadening our perspective when managing time
- The importance of planning the most important tasks in our life first
- Pulsing is the practice of managing work cycles
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