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Carregando... Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Lifede Tara Henley
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |    ) infjsarah | Aug 11, 2020 | being stuck in quarantine, during a "stay-at-home" time, after leaving my job, it seemed like a good time to read about slowing down and refocusing my attention. it's not fully what i got, but she did give me some things to think about. "We need to be woven into the fabric of each other's daily lives. We need close, intimate unbreakable bonds. We need to rely on each other as if our very survival depends upon it." "Modern society disrupts the bonds that define humanity." "The whole conversation, the very way that we speak about social change, is dictated by the group that has the most to gain from society not changing in any significant way." ( ) overlycriticalelisa | Jun 19, 2020 |
 Lean Out, A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life, is a memoir of Tara Henley’s journey through her career as a journalist, TV news producer and author. The theme of the book is the crazy busy-ness of modern life inside ‘successful’ careers. It’s a bit of an argument against Sheryl Sandburg’s Lean In, as you might imagine by the title.
Biography & Autobiography.
Self-Improvement.
Travel.
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HTML:INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Travel to the land of Couldn't Be More Timely."â??Margaret Atwood on Lean Out, in the West End Phoenix "What begins as one woman's critique of our culture of overwork and productivity ultimately becomes an investigation into our most urgent problems: vast inequality, loneliness, economic precarity, and isolation from the natural world. Henley punctures the myths of the meritocracy in a way few writers have. This is an essential book for our time." â??Mandy Len Catron, author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone A deeply personal and informed reflection on the modern worldâ??and why so many feel disillusioned by it. In 2016, journalist Tara Henley was at the top of her game working in Canadian media. She had traveled the world, from Soweto to Bangkok and Borneo to Brooklyn, interviewing authors and community leaders, politicians and Hollywood celebrities. But when she started getting chest pains at her desk in the newsroom, none of that seemed to matter. The health crisisâ??not cardiac, it turned out, but anxietyâ??forced her to step off the media treadmill and examine her life and the stressful twenty-first century world around her. Henley was not alone; North America was facing an epidemic of lifestyle-related health problems. And yet, the culture was continually celebrating the elite few who thrived in the always-on work world, those who perpetually leaned in. Henley realized that if we wanted innovative solutions to the wave of burnout and stress-related illness, it was time to talk to those who had leaned out. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part investigation, Lean Out tracks Henley's journey from the heart of the connected city to the fringe communities that surround it. From early retirement enthusiasts in urban British Columbia to moneyless men in rural Ireland, Henley uncovers a parallel track in which everyday citizens are quietly dropping out of the mainstream and reclaiming their lives from overwork. Underlying these disparate movements is a rejection of consumerism, a growing appetite for social contribution, and a quest for meaningful connection in this era of extreme isolation and loneliness. As she connects the dots between anxiety and overwork, Henley confronts the biggest issu Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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To be honest, you have to get through a few chapters of whiny privilege to get to the good stuff -- this is written by someone who excelled at the dream trajectory of celebrity career and found it empty, so there are definitely some moments early on that were hard for me to connect to. However, the welter at the beginning effectively illustrates the struggle of modern culture and provides a useful framework as the book deepens and grows to its conclusions.
Tara Henley is an astonishingly effective journalist and writer. Her conclusions are well thought out, encompass many points of view, and ultimately create a path forward that doesn't require rejecting the entirety of modern life. What I really appreciate about this book is that she isn't just wailing about all the things that are wrong in the world -- there are a lot, we are in crisis -- instead, she explores solutions, and you can see the linear trajectory that gets her from one point to another and to her specific and actionable conclusions.
I never expected this book to end up as a treatise on income inequality and the importance of personal community connections. I never expected her personal journey to so profoundly explain to me the root of my own struggles over the last ten years. I needed this roadmap to understand what is happening in our society, and I am grateful to also understand the things we can do that will create lasting and healing change.
I wonder where she is at now, in this pandemic time. I wonder what book comes next to build upon her themes that are painfully illustrated by the global repercussions of our interrupted economies.
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