In this episode Brigid Schulte shares her insights on her book, Overwhelmed, where she reveals the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.
In her book Schulte shares the story of what she found while traveling across Europe to understand how countries accommodate working parents while investigating companies that are trying to invent a new kind of workplace. The goal of the book is to provide you with practical advice on how to make better use of each day and open your eyes to why we live and work the way we do.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are determined to exhaust themselves for work but find themselves becoming overwhelmed with stress and busyness.
About Brigid Schulte:
“I have been a longtime reporter for The Washington Post and been a journalist for most of my adult life. I have covered a wide variety of things throughout my career. I am married and the mom of two kids who are now 13 and 16. I live in Alexandria Virginia and grew up in Portland Oregon.
Overwhelmed was a completely accidental book. Through my career I have always wanted to write a book. There are lots of journalists out there and that’s sort of a big dream that they all have but you just get so busy and you don’t really have time to think about it. I was part of this group in The Washington Post where we were looking at a readership numbers and we were noticing a big gap between male and female readers. We found that more men were reading the newspaper and before women were and the reason why that is important is that women over 50 have always been the most loyal newspaper readers. So we put together what we call The Women’s Reader Committee and we wanted to understand why women are not reading the paper and how do we bring them back? This committee was made up of me and all other women. The first thing we did was roll our eyes because we as women know that we don’t have time in the mornings to read the newspaper. And it became this sort of confessional about just how crazy our lives were. F
rom there I did a time study and to my surprise found that we have all this leisure time we aren’t aware of which led me to writing this book.” - Brigid Schulte
For a detailed summary of Overwhelmed according to Brigid Schulte CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
The Greatness Zone by Jay Forte
The Upside of Your Dark Side by Todd Kashdan
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