“It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.” PeopleThinkingHomeAmericaNeededMajorityPainfulBack To Work Author:Brigid Schulte
“If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in volume than people who did not have that same feeling. This is the grey matter in your prefrontal cortex: It controls thinking, learning, planning, decision-making. That matters because when we are feeling more stressed, that is when we are at our most vulnerable in our inability to think our way out of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsPerceptionPlanningVulnerableStressedStressed Out Author:Brigid Schulte
“Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's how we show status and importance. That is a really interesting and troubling finding. We've taken this notion of hard work to a crazy degree.” ThinkingValuesInterestingTakenCrazyHard WorkImportanceReally Interesting Author:Brigid Schulte
“I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...” ThinkingEyeRevelationsLeisureBeholderEye Of The Beholder Author:Brigid Schulte
