Summary of Brigid Schulte's Overwhelmed

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#1 I am always doing more than one thing at a time and feel I never do any one thing particularly well. I am always behind and always late, with one more thing and one more thing to do before rushing out the door.

#2 I have a lot of anxiety about my life getting lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff. I worry that I’ll die and realize that my life got lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff.

#3 I had been part of an internal work group at the Washington Post researching why so few women were reading the newspaper. I had been tasked with getting the time-use data showing how busy and time-starved women are, particularly mothers.

#4 The idea that women have more leisure time than men is false. Women have at least thirty hours of leisure time every week, but men have more leisure time than they did in the 1960s, even though more women are working outside the home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822511361

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I am always doing more than one thing at a time and feel I never do any one thing particularly well. I am always behind and always late, with one more thing and one more thing to do before rushing out the door.

#2

I have a lot of anxiety about my life getting lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff. I worry that I’ll die and realize that my life got lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff.

#3

I had been part of an internal work group at the Washington Post researching why so few women were reading the newspaper. I had been tasked with getting the time-use data showing how busy and time-starved women are, particularly mothers.

#4

The idea that women have more leisure time than men is false. Women have at least thirty hours of leisure time every week, but men have more leisure time than they did in the 1960s, even though more women are working outside the home.

#5

I was shocked to find that not everyone had the time to do the things they wanted. I asked friends and family members, and they said they were too busy or their husbands or children kept them busy.

#6

When I read that some social scientists thought the time crunch was a yuppie kvetch, I asked a friend who works with working-poor immigrant families if I could come to one of their monthly meetings.

#7

The ancient Greek philosophers believed that true leisure, free from the drudgery of work, not only refreshed the soul but also opened it up. People in the modern world are so caught up in busyness that they have lost the ability even to imagine what leisure is.

#8

I had started keeping my time diary in the little black Moleskine notebooks because my time was too unruly to shove into the orderly rectangles of the time diary template John Robinson had given me. The notebooks dutifully chronicle such embarrassments as the late bills and the time spent on the phone in crisis management mode because I put something off too long.

#9

I was writing in my black notebooks about how I felt like time was flying by. I was constantly worrying about money, and I was missing out on my kids growing up before my eyes.

#10

Robinson’s research shows that Americans feel they have less time, but when you look at their diaries, they actually have