A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives. — Brigid Schulte Busy Copy Share Image
“If we don’t feel like we have leisure, Robinson maintains, it’s entirely our own fault. “Time is a smokescreen. And it’s a… — Brigid Schulte Time Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we… — Brigid Schulte Middle ages Copy Share Image
Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we… — Brigid Schulte Crazy Copy Share Image
“Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their… — Brigid Schulte Health Copy Share Image
As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home. — Brigid Schulte Home Copy Share Image
“Eight in ten Britons report being too busy to eat dessert, even though four in ten say dessert is better than sex.” — Brigid Schulte Too busy Copy Share Image
The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers. — Brigid Schulte Economy Copy Share Image
The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with… — Brigid Schulte Addiction Copy Share Image
It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at… — Brigid Schulte America Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies. — Brigid Schulte Believer Copy Share Image
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was… — Brigid Schulte Crazy Copy Share Image
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte Absent Copy Share Image
“But once I’m done, I can’t tell you what it was I did or why it seemed so important.” — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with… — Brigid Schulte Brag Copy Share Image
What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it. — Brigid Schulte Feels Copy Share Image
“The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes “does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian… — Brigid Schulte Death Copy Share Image
What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and… — Brigid Schulte Attention Copy Share Image
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts. — Brigid Schulte Conform Copy Share Image
The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women… — Brigid Schulte Assuming Copy Share Image
On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It… — Brigid Schulte Brain Copy Share Image
The big message is that we need to reimagine and re-engineer how we work - what does work mean and how do… — Brigid Schulte Common Copy Share Image
There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which… — Brigid Schulte Conflict Copy Share Image
“research has found that, with the flick of the TV’s remote, our thinking brains shut off. Within thirty seconds, we lose our… — Brigid Schulte Sense of self Copy Share Image
