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…research has shown that nearly 40 percent of the American workers they surveyed, from the top to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, report feeling overworked.
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[Americans] work among the longest hours and the most ‘extreme’ hours of any industrialized country in the world.
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The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation…
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In America, mothers today spend more time taking care of their children than mothers did in the 1960s, even though so many more are working, and working full-time, outside the home.
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The World Health Organization found that Americans live in the richest country, but they are also the most anxious.
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[Americans] think that making mistakes means they are stupid. That belief is precisely what keeps them from learning from their mistakes.
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So embedded is the link between mistakes and stupidity in American culture that it can be shocking to learn that not all cultures share it.
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