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…in surveys around the globe, women are more likely to report more chronic stress and the feeling that life is out of control than men.

…feeling positive and happy in the first place is what fosters achievement.

…scholars say women taking time for themselves, deliberately choosing leisure without children or family, is nothing less than a courageous – subversive, almost – act of resistance.

…talk to any leisure researcher, and he or she will say that the true test of leisure is not what the activity is that fills a certain block of time but how that time feels.

…screen time for American adults, not counting work on computers, can hit an astounding 8.5 hours a day, the most time sucking of any developed country in the world.

…research has found that when people have a sense of choice and control over what they do with their free time, they are more likely to get into flow, that engrossing and timeless state that some call peak human experience.

A final lesson in learning how to climb out of that ceaseless frenzy of the overwhelm… [is] learning how to master the ceaseless clutter of your own contaminated mind.

…the reality is that the problem is systemic and directly related to the limitations of hierarchy and basic managerial processes.

Hierarchies with great management processes and good leaders on top are not built for leaping into a creative future.

Management-driven hierarchies are built to minimize risk and keep people in their boxes and silos. To change this more than incrementally is to fight a losing battle.