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It reads a lot like a series of unprofessional blog posts, with at times conflicting information, and a track that wanders a bit aimlessly. It's hard for me to reconcile that the fundamental things the author talks about in this book: the attention economy, its link to capitalism, how we all need to slow down and think about what we're doing, are all true, and yet the tone is just so smug, lecturing, and talking down at the reader from the lofty heights of liberal academia, as opposed to rooted in the real world where the reader is, with the problem at hand. Yet another book my brain isn’t quite advanced enough to fully engage with.
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Change your life, be happy, read this book. So many things take up our attention. A very short review which doesn't do justice to this book: yes, I was taken by the self-helpy title. Change ). Is it a book that we need to read in order to uncheck our delirious desire of staying in (digital) check of everything? I would like to read Thin Air as I read Michelle Paver’s Wakenhyrst last year and enjoyed it. OMG anyone and everyone should read this book, it's truly life changing.
It’s about being able to reclaim our attentiveness and redirect it into the things that matter to us. I found Odell to be a great writer, truly. I probably should have sat in silence and watched birds instead of reading this book. She has written a joyful manifesto about resistance that is also an eccentric and practical handbook on how to reclaim your colonized and monetized attention." Good r. Less of a "need to read" in a how-to sense, and more of a reminder to inhabit your physical reality and take a look around yourself more often. I never was excited to pick the book back up, but once I did I always found the author’s arguments original and well-founded - I found myself wanting to highlight a LOT. ‘Cairngorm John’ was his call sign when in contact with Search and Rescue helicopters. The show on the streaming service. Imagination Mastery: A Workbook For Shifting Your Reality (The Shift Series), Happiness Formula: How to live the best life. This month the chain begins with – How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, a an author and a book I’ve never come across before, nor have I heard of the attention economy. It reads like the author wanted to turn a blog into a book and so needed to pad it with a lot of extraneous text that doesn't fit the intended theme. Everything includes: I figured this was the perfect book to read right now haha doing nothing in quarantine and finding peace doing it. I bought this book after we’d had a holiday in the Cairngorms.
With my interest piqued, I logged on and downloaded Neil Pasricha's "The Happiness Equation" while we were still at the restaurant where we were having dinner. In the midst of this literal scramble to market everything, including one's self, for money, all, I started out a bit frustrated with this - it felt a bit academic, a bit too keen to wear its intelligence on its sleeve (I think I just get annoyed when people refer to Greek philosophers too much). What are you good for?"
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With a thoughtful look at the attention economy, Odell’s book is a self-help guide for re-learning how to look at the world. The title and cover had me intrigued. As a consulting and clinical psychologist I have the opportunity to plan, organize, and deliver stress management workshops.
I found an Advanced Reader's Copy of this book at the library where I work, so I was able to read this before the public gets to it this April. It transitions from happiness to productivity and back again. In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. I thought this would be a great self-help book that would talk about how and why we should take the time to "do nothing." Must-Read Books of 2019. An amazing book. it exceeded my expectations. Welcome back. Instead, I got birds. I didn’t get to finish because of a slew of family events, but what I read I did...respect? I was hoping that it would provide some guidelines based on extensive research into how we all get hooked on refreshing feeds full of people we don't know talking about things that we pretty much instantly forget about as soon as we close our browser (that's just me, maybe). There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. On a more personal note, I loved how deeply rooted in Oakland and the East Bay area this book is, as opposed to San Francisco proper—another subtle way Odell manages to constantly position herself in an interestingly off-centered places to encourage the reader down different avenues of understanding and thought. I know what that feels like, hiking with people fitter than you and seeing them march off in front of you, waiting for you to catch up and then setting off again – I felt sorry for Katz. Putnam's Sons; Reprint Edition (December 27, 2016). Social media.
Refresh and try again. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Learn how your comment data is processed. Lots to chew over here - would love to hear what others' thought. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2018. My next book is the one I’ve just finished, Thin Air: a Ghost Story by Michelle Paver. What if your life story is bigger than you think? If I'm feeling forthright, I'll reply, "Nothing. ( Log Out / Great chain and as Marina Sofia says, love all the mountains. I was hoping that it would provide some guidelines based on extensive research into how we all get hooked on refreshing feeds full of people we don't know talking about things that we pretty much instantly forget about as soon as we close our browser (that's just me, maybe). I’ve heard of a few of these books, but haven’t read any of them. What an interesting chain. Learn more about the program. But I refuse to do that. Master Your Destiny: A Practical Guide to Rewrite Your Story and Become the Person ... Goal Setting: The Ultimate Guide To Achieving Goals That Truly Excite You. Walking and nature has kept a lot of us sane through it all! When I began reading it I was concerned it'd be like some books of this genre that don't really have any value and are a bit wishy washy but not this book. Get your hands-on companion to Master Your Destiny now. this book about doing nothing somehow manages to be about… everything??? The only one I’ve read is Thin Air, which I enjoyed though not as much as her earlier Dark Matter. Last year, Buzzfeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen struck a chord with her viral article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.”... To see what your friends thought of this book, Less of a "need to read" in a how-to sense, and more of a reminder to inhabit your physical reality and take a look around yourself more often. The Book of Awesome (The Book of Awesome Series), You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life (Book of Awesome Series, The), Life After Life: The Bestselling Original Investigation That Revealed "Near-Death Experiences", How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety, The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy.
Anyone who has run a public event where you show people other organisms has fielded the horrible, soul-crushing question, "But what does it do?" You share such great books. This book demonstrates that long-lasting happiness depends on the wisdom gained by understanding the true nature of the mind and the world.
She is thinking through what it means to reclaim intimacy, connectivity, and resistance amidst the over-saturation of stimulation the Internet age has proliferated (re: think-piece economy). And then I was reminded of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods and his hike along the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. The Witchfinder’s Sister, historical fiction by Beth Underdown, based on the life of the 1640s witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and his sister, Alice. I was expecting more of a how-to, self-help book but instead this is a very heady, very academic and well-researched treatise on attention, culture, and our society at large.
Witchcraft is the link to the next book. I am personally in a state of constant love and hate as well as inspiration and anxiety in terms of my relationship to social media (particularly Instagram), and this book spoke volumes to me about a term that is curiously not found anywhere within these pages: mindfulness. Tom tells his life story in flashbacks, switching back and forth in time between the present day and the past. You have no idea why she loves birdwatching so much (to her it's a proto-spiritual experience, to you it seems superficially like playing Pokémon Go) nor can you figure out how she affords to live on the Oakland-Piedmont border without a full-time job. The book all over the place using historical references with long excerpts of quoted text. As I finished the first chapter, I knew that I was going to read the entire thing. The authors argument is impossible to follow. their stillness kindles another way to relate to ourselves and the world around us, one that allows us to both relish and relax more. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. However one of the reviews is more helpful – it ‘is a self-help guide for re-learning how to look at the world.
They're not unreasonable questions, perfectly understandable, human questions really, and at the same time completely maddening to an ardent naturalist, as if you'd just introduced your beloved mother to someone who then asked, "Nice to meet you, but what are you good for?" I’ll be looking out for your review! For Odell “silence” and “nothing,” are not absences, they are presences pregnant with possibility. Jenny Odell's How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy articulates exactly how I have been feeling, and irrigates my ideas with some brilliant examples from art, nature, and science. This book is so vital for our generation — we who are more connected than ever before but still more lonely + alienated than ever.