Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps we arm ourselves with life hacks to-do lists and an inbox-zero mentality grasping at anything that will help us work faster push harder and produce more.There?s just one problem: most of these solutions are making things worse. Creativity isn?t produced on an assembly line and endless hustle is ruining our mental and physical health while subtracting from our creative performance. Productivity and Creativity are not compatible; we are stuck between them and like the opposite poles of a magnet they are tearing us apart.When we?re told to sleep more meditate and slow down we nod our heads in agreement yet seem incapable of applying this advice in our own lives.Why do we act against our creative best interests?WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO FLOAT.The answer lies in our history culture and biology. Instead of focusing on how we work we must understand why we work?why we believe that what we do determines who we are. Hustle and Float explores how our work culture creates contradictions between what we think we want and what we actually need and points the way to a more humane more sustainable and yes more creative way of working and living.

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Diversion Books (February 19 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1635765781

ISBN-13: 978-1635765786

Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces