Seeking insights, answers and inspiration, Schulte explores everything from the wiring of the brain and why workplaces are becoming increasingly demanding, to worldwide differences in family policy, how cultural norms shape our experiences at work, our unequal division of labour at home and why it's so hard for everyone but women especially to feel they deserve an elusive moment of peace. A new book by Brigid Schulte called Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time takes a critical look at the mounting time pressures we feel in. Overwhelmed author Brigid Schulte talks about how to restructure your days. Overwhelmed maps the individual, historical, biological and societal stresses that have ripped working mothers' and fathers' leisure to shreds, and asks how it might be possible for us to put the pieces back together. It’s impossible to be creative, or in fact do much of anything at work, when you feel pulled in a thousand directions. What followed was a trip down the rabbit hole of busy-ness, a journey to discover why so many of us find it near-impossible to press the 'pause' button on life and what got us here in the first place. So when Schulte met an eminent sociologist who studies time and he told her she enjoyed thirty hours of leisure each week, she thought her head was going to pop off. Author Brigid Schulte, an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post - and harried mother of. Realising she had become someone who constantly burst in late, trailing shoes and schoolbooks and biscuit crumbs, she began to question, like so many of us, whether it is possible to be anything you want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. _ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own To Do list' - Mail on Sunday _ In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically (but surreptitiously) sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed.

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