Brigid Schulte Quotes

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder…

We live in a really crazy time when there is information coming at you, and there are so many demands on your time. It really comes down to choosing your own priorities and forgiving yourself a lot and checking your own expectations.

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be – which is not just a helper and fun parent, but actually a partner – are beginning to feel more work-life conflict than mothers are. They’re trying to do what women have been doing for 30 years, and they’re having a very stressful time of it – a harder time at work because we still expect men to be on 24-7, working 40 years straight.

What’s happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don’t ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I’m hoping that as we get used to these technologies we’ll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

I’m optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.