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Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round for a tale as old as time-or at least as old as the first caveman who tried to knap flint while scrolling Instagram. Here's Homo distractus, the creature who invented fire, democracy, and the ability to ruin all three by doomscrolling through them. But this isn't a dirge for your attention span. It's a rescue mission.
Imagine, if you will, a world where "productivity" isn't code for tap-dancing on a hundred stages at once, but for standing still on one-with the monolithic concentration of a monk, the precision of a neurosurgeon, and the calm of a sloth who just discovered espresso. This book is your field guide to that world. You'll trek through the neuroscience jungles (where multitasking is a biological con job), scale the philosophy peaks (where Seneca and Silicon Valley duke it out), and dive into the murky waters of modern work culture (spoiler: the sharks are wearing Bluetooth headsets).
Meet Finnish schoolkids who ace global rankings by doing... less. CEOs who fatten profits by firing clients, not hiring hustlers. And a tribe of analog anarchists-armed with typewriters, paper maps, and the audacity to sit still-who've rediscovered a radical truth: The meaning of life isn't found in the 47 tabs open in your brain. It's in the single sentence you write, the one conversation you hear, the one breath you take before the world yells "NEXT!"
So why crack this spine? Because you're sick of being a lab rat in Zuckerberg's dopamine maze. Because you'd rather build a legacy than a LinkedIn post. And because, deep down, you suspect the secret to saving your sanity-and maybe the species-isn't in doing more, but in doing one thing... as if your life depends on it. (Spoiler: It does.)
Unplug the Wi-Fi, ditch the to-do list, and let's get gloriously, rebelliously bored. The revolution's silent, but the payoff? Oh, it's loud.