Busy, how to thrive in a world of too much – Tony Crabbe

Een echte aanrader voor iedereen die echt minder druk wil zijn en echt het verschil wil maken met zijn team; It’s difficult to ask anybody ‘How are you?’ without hearing the word ‘busy’ somewhere in their response. We feel overwhelmed by busyness because of the demands on our time: our inbox and our to-do list are bulging, a huge amount of people expect things from us and our organisations are trying to do more with fewer people. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Hier een TedX talk van Tony Crabbe op Schiphol in 2015

Reality, busyness isn’t essential. Yes, there is a lot to do, but believing you’re always busy because you have so much to do is both false and unhelpful. Busyness is a normal response to a world of too much, but it isn’t the only response.

In Busy Tony Crabbe draws on solid psychological research to address one of the great problems of modern life: we’re too busy. But it isn’t a time-management book. Rather than providing advice for increasing productivity and efficiency, it sets out four key strategies (corresponding to sections of the book) for thriving despite of the overload of too much:

1.Mastery

2.Focus

3.Engagement

4.Momentum

Klik hier om het boek te bekijken of lees het artikel in Psychology magazine pag 41 nummer 2 – 2016