However one of the reviews is more helpful – it ‘is a self-help guide for re-learning how to look at the world. I’ll be looking out for your review! I'm not widely read in this mode of writing, but Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams come to mind as comparisons. A book lover writes about this, that and the other. Still haven’t read that Matt Haig, but I did love Thin Air, preferring it to Dark Matter. You share such great books. Social media / digitization of everyone and everything has fundamentally shifted our understandings of time/space/labor/identity/body and works like this are beginning to account for that and theorize accordingly. This book is a game-changer! ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  Very clever chain here, Margaret! A very short review which doesn't do justice to this book: yes, I was taken by the self-helpy title. their stillness kindles another way to relate to ourselves and the world around us, one that allows us to both relish and relax more. Discover 71 mindfulness habits to live in the present moment and get more peace of mind. The things it talks about are easy to put into practice and super effective. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. He literally said this book was going to change his life. My husband has read it and said it is fabulous, not a word he uses lightly, or very often. Read The Book to find out more. The slick meta-takeaway is that th. One major piece of advice is to limit access to yourself at work when we know that social relationships are a primary indicator of happiness. How to do nothing: the new guide to refocusing on the real world Author Jenny Odell talks about the attention economy and the value of being alone with one’s thoughts Ellie Shechet
None of the other librarians had taken it, and I usually don't end up reading ARCs, but after looking at the cover a couple times, I found myself genuinely intrigued. While our lives stew in the panic brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic, I find it incredibly frustrating that people are more concerned about their loss of productivity than the idea of possible death. Refresh and try again. I don't dislike birds, although I am not keen on the finding-self-in-nature essay/book. In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Set goals you're passionate about and achieve them with this ultimate step-by-step guide. Social media. Change ). 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). But once I settled into Odell's style, I really warmed to it - this is so much more than a self-help guide to ditching twitter, it's an argument about modern life more broadly and the value of paying sustained attention to things (both the inherent value and the value in terms of achieving any meaningful political progress). From the title it sounds like a self-help book, and the cover, although very colourful, doesn’t give me many clues, except to suggest it’s about flowers or gardening. Achieving your goal is not rocket science. As well as a good story it is a fascinating look at life in England during the Civil War, set in 1645, a time of great change and conflict in politics, religion and philosophical ideas, coinciding with a growth in the belief in witchcraft.

“Doing nothing,” isn’t about a total digital detox, it’s about excavating a third space that is of the digital world + outside of it. Learn more about the program.

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. This book is for deep thinkers, armchair philosophers, and those interested in peeling back the layers of our constructed reality. That’s because the pitfalls of the attention economy can’t just be avoided by logging off and refusing the influence of persuasive design techniques; they also emerge at the intersection of issues of public space, environmental politics, class, and race.". It’s time again for Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. 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?" Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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. In the midst of this literal scramble to market everything, including one's self, for money, all I want to do is nothing.

Build more wealth. Odell takes social media companies to task for competing for our attentiveness + making us invest in the construction of digital worlds all the while the p. This book is so vital for our generation — we who are more connected than ever before but still more lonely + alienated than ever. There is no thesis here and no new insights. 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. It is very funny. Odell has some interesting points but good lord does it seem like she would be exhausting to talk to at a party, Like others, this book is not what I was expecting. Something went wrong. So many things take up our attention. 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. G.P. 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. The authors argument is impossible to follow. What I found wonderful—but I can imagine is a source of frustration for some—is the circuitous routes Odell wanders down, which allows her reader to circle around and suddenly see familiar scenarios/habits/patterns from unexpected perspectives (her book "is less a lecture than an invitation to take a walk," she admits in the first few pages). The books in my chain are linked by titles – ‘How to …’, witchcraft, siblings, and mountains, from the Himalayas to the Cairngorms to the Appalachians. My next book is the one I’ve just finished, Thin Air: a Ghost Story by Michelle Paver. Thin Air is on my TBR list, love stories like that. Six Degrees of Separation: from How to Do Nothing to A Walk in the Woods, Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2020, Cairngorm John: a Life in Mountain Rescue, The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton, Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Autumn 2020 TBR. I thought it would be a lame self-help book. Find out why How to Do Nothing is one of the best books of 2019. If I'm feeling forthright, I'll reply, "Nothing, really.

Has the feeling of taking a leisurely stroll with your loony hippie friend who is at once an overeducated ecosocialist and a crackpot Zen mind-hacker. I really enjoyed Matt Haig’s book. But once I settled into Odell's style, I really warmed to it - this is so much more than a self-help guide to ditching twitter, it's an argument about modern life more broadly and the value of paying sustained attention to things (both the inherent value and the value in terms of achieving any meani. Putnam's Sons; Reprint Edition (December 27, 2016). Instead of providing hard and fast strategies to disengage from work and social media, Jenny Odell offers more of a smart, flowing reflection on the importance of separating ourselves from feeling like we have to work, feeling like we have to broadcast our lives on social media 24/7.

Going to hop over to the host now. As a consulting and clinical psychologist I have the opportunity to plan, organize, and deliver stress management workshops. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Two Minute Mornings: A Journal to Win Your Day Every Day (Gratitude Journal, Mental Health Journal, Mindfulness Journal, Self-Care Journal). 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?" Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.

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. She channels her energy into bioregionalism and encourages us to attune ourselves to our direct physical environments. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020. Want to feel a little happier every day? We need to know how to do nothing.

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). ‘Cairngorm John’ was his call sign when in contact with Search and Rescue helicopters. Good read. The Ultimate Goal Setting Planner: Become an Unstoppable Goal Achiever in 90 Days o... View From the Top: Living a Life of Significance, Happier Human: 53 Science-Backed Habits to Increase Your Happiness, Every Drop of Water and Every Grain of Salt on the Way to Authentic Happiness. Love the mountain theme in this month’s choices. Rather than snappy bits of advice, Odell instead offers us an extended meditation on how our world is being fundamentally restructured in a way so as to suspend us in an uneasy eternal present of context-less information, perpetually filling up the mental space needed to contemplate, process, and react.
There's a problem loading this menu right now. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). Find all the books, read about the author, and more.

Imagination Mastery: A Workbook For Shifting Your Reality (The Shift Series), Happiness Formula: How to live the best life. Fabulous! Is it a book that we need to read in order to uncheck our delirious desire of staying in (digital) check of everything? With wonderful precision, passion, and artfulness, Odell finds the language to meet this cultural moment. Please try your request again later. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Have you read The Humans? 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." What I found wonderful—but I can imagine i.