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We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity. 'This book is so important and could truly save lives . . . With intelligence and compassion...

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington “This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert “A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant We work feverishly to make ourselves...

Take a moment to consider how many outcomes in your life may have been affected by poor communication skills. Could you have gotten a job you really wanted? Saved a relationship? How is it that we so often fail to say the right thing at the right time? In her career as an NPR host, journalist Celeste Headlee has interviewed hundreds of people from all walks of life, and if there's one thing she's learned, it's that it's hard to overestimate the power of conversation and its ability to both bridge gaps and deepen wounds.

Hemos perdido la capacidad de otorgarnos tiempo y genuina atención a nosotros mismos, creemos que todo debe ser hecho en función de algo más. Esto nos ha llevado a un callejón sin salida: mientras más competentes somos, nos llenamos de más actividades y mayor estrés. ¿No debería de suceder lo contrario? Por si fuera poco, cada vez nos sentimos más aislados, deprimidos y ansiosos. Sin importar que hayamos alcanzado metas cada vez más ambiciosas de productividad, parece que nunca nada es suficiente.

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read. In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were suddenly released from enslavement. But they...