I worked and lived in an overwhelmed state for a long time and learned a lot of bad habits.
How and when did you start applying the lessons you learned?Ī: I am a recovering workaholic and helicopter parent. Q: There's irony in the fact a lot of work went into writing a book about leisure. We need the oscillation between the two types of thinking. I hate to use leisure to promote productivity, but it's true, If we take time to recharge, when we work, we work better. You need the downtime when your mind is wandering - whether it's going for a walk or not doing anything at all. That second kind isn't valued in the U.S., but what we're discovering is you need both to get to a new idea, a creative thought. We have two systems of thinking, one when we're concentrating and the other is task-negative, almost a daydreaming state. See More CollapseĪ: If you look at neuroscience, it's clear why free time or blank space is important. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.Where: Albany Marriott Hotel, 189 Wolf Road, ColonieĮach attendee will receive a copy of the book. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work.
Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.
Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: "How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure-over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research-anything we could do?"Ī New York Times bestseller, Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time." Can working parents in America-or anywhere-ever find true leisure time?Īccording to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity.
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