Celeste Headlee joined Salon Talks to discuss how creating boundaries & escaping the cult of productivity feels imperative to our mental & physical health to slow down.

Embrace Doing Nothing, Especially If You’re Working From Home

Last month, I joined Salon to talk about how the world has changed exponentially since my latest book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Under Living.

Already, the notion of eating lunch in your cubicle or answering work emails from home seem like the habits of another era. Yet my message — of creating boundaries, of stepping away from the glowing screen now and then, of admitting that multitasking makes us less productive rather than more — seems more important now than ever. It feels imperative to our mental and physical health to slow down.

Watch the “Salon Talks” episode or read the transcript, both here: https://www.salon.com/2020/03/21/do-nothing-book-celeste-headlee-working-from-home-dangers-salon-talk/


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