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Overwhelmed:
…it’s much more difficult for women to feel that they can get immersed in something and forget themselves, forget time, forget everything around them. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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67 |
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Overwhelmed:
…women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once… they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.
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67 |
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Overwhelmed:
When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you’re powerless.
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68 |
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Overwhelmed:
…studies on human performance and motivation show our work culture is completely at odds with how we produce our best work…
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76 |
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Overwhelmed:
The all-or-nothing workplace is exacting a steep price on the future.
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82 |
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Overwhelmed:
…leisure has been lost because work now answers the religious questions of who we are and how we find meaning… the total work devotion of the ideal worker has become a religion itself. – Ben Hunnicutt
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86 |
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Overwhelmed:
…regardless of the quality of their work, people who work remotely… are less likely to be seen as responsible and dedicated and more likely to get lower performance evaluations, smaller raises, and fewer promotions…
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87 |
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Overwhelmed:
Nearly two-thirds of all employed workers, both women and men, say they’d rather own their own business for the freedom that would give them to control their time.
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88 |
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Overwhelmed:
Research shows that forcing long hours, face time for the sake of face time, and late nights actually kills creativity and good thinking, and the ensuing stress, anxiety, and depression eat up health-care budgets.
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88 |
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Overwhelmed:
The single largest cause of burnout is lack of personal control on the job – expected to be the ideal worker with no life and free to satisfy the boss’s every whim.
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88 |
