Granted: The case for slow replies, and insights on facing fear and finding hope
Adam Grantadamgrant.substack.com
Granted: The case for slow replies, and insights on facing fear and finding hope
The world thinks rest, recovery, and general refusal of work is gross. You can — and should — do it anyway. ●
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
”It’s normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead” - Lucy Hunt
We have inherited from all this a deeply bizarre idea of what it means to spend your time off “well”—and, conversely, what counts as wasting it. In this view of time, anything that doesn’t create some form of value for the future is, by definition, mere idleness. Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work, or perhaps fo... See more