Quit Grinding, Start Thriving: Mindset Shifts to Transform Your Work

Brigid Schulte shares 5 key insights from Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life.

So, how’s your job going? If you’re like many of us, it’s not going as well as you’d like. Even though work is often central to our lives, Americans report higher levels of stress, burnout and dissatisfaction than ever. So what can we do about it? Brigid Schulte has ideas in her new book Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life. Brigid wrote the bestseller Overwhelmed and is a Pulitzer-winning journalist who formerly wrote for the Washington Post. Our Next Big Idea Club curator

Adam Grant

says Brigid is “a vital voice on the future of work, and her carefully researched book lights the way to fewer hours, less stress, and more meaning.” Scroll down to hear Brigid share 5 of her big ideas.

The 5 Key Insights:

1. Work isn’t working. It may even be killing us.

2. Working hard doesn’t mean working long hours.

3. Focus on priorities, process, and performance.

4. When you put human well-being first, everybody wins.

5. We need to think about work in a bigger way.

Hear Brigid’s insights on transforming your daily grind: