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Overwhelmed:
To [ancient Greek philosophers], living a life of leisure was the highest aim of a human being.
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Overwhelmed:
True leisure, the Greeks believed, free from the drudgery of work, not only refreshed the soul but also opened it up.
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Overwhelmed:
…people in the modern world are so caught up in the busyness they have lost the ability even to imagine what leisure is. – Ben Hunnicutt
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Overwhelmed:
Mothers, even those working outside the home for pay, still do twice the housework and twice the child care of fathers.
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Overwhelmed:
What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time… is how we feel about it. Our perception of time is, indeed, our reality.
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Overwhelmed:
When women began working in a man’s world, their lives changed completely.
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Overwhelmed:
…until attitudes [about working women], however unconscious, catch up with the way we really live our lives, the overwhelm will swirl on.
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Overwhelmed:
Time studies find that a mother, especially one who works outside the home for pay, is among the most time-poor humans on the planet, especially single mothers…
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Overwhelmed:
…living in an always-on technological haze leads to mental exhaustion.
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Overwhelmed:
…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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