Crazybusy, Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Crazybusy, Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
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Crazybusy
Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life

Author: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Narrator: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Abridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2006


Synopsis

Look at what's happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: "How are you?" "Fine." Now it often goes like this: "How are you?" "Busy." Or "Too busy." Or simply "Crazy."

Without intending for it to happen or knowing how, when, or why it got started, many people now find that they live in a rush they never wanted. If you feel busier than you've ever been and wonder how this happened and how you can keep up the pace much longer, you are hardly alone.

Crazy? Maybe not. Dysfunctional? Yes, indeed. We all have more to do than ever before -- and less time to do it. In this highly listenable audiobook, the foremost expert on ADD, Ned Hallowell, explores the society-wide phenomenon of culturally induced ADD.

Being busy may very well keep you from doing what matters most, or it may lead you to do things you deem unwise (like getting angry, for example). Being busy is a problem for almost all of us. This audiobook is about both the opportunity and the problem -- where this peculiar life comes from and how to turn it to your advantage. Offering solutions to this difficult, complex problem that might work for you, most importantly, Crazybusy may prompt you to create solutions of your own.

About The Author

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., was an instructor at Harvard Medical School for twenty years and is now the director of the Hallowell Centers in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, and the Boston area. He is the co-author of Driven to Distraction, Delivered from Distraction, and Answers to Distraction, as well as the author of CrazyBusy, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, and Worry, among other titles. He also hosts a weekly podcast called Distraction that offers practical solutions on how to focus and regain control in today’s digital world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lain

Who cannot relate to being "overstretched, overbooked, and about to snap?" As with his other books, Dr. Hallowell presents not only the problem (overcommitted, speeded-up lifestyles), but some practical solutions as well. I rolled my eyes along with the anecdotes he presents, completely identifying......more

Goodreads review by Julio

This is one of the books I read on ADD after being diagnosed in 2012.......more

Goodreads review by Krishna

A fundamental problem with this book is that if it is meant to be written for busy people, it should have been way shorter than it was. The book has some good stories, but there is a lot of unnecessary rambling. In addition, the author introduces a lot of terms like "Gemmelsmerch" and "Frazzing" - k......more