Summary of Brigid Schulte's Overwhelmed

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 I am always doing more than one thing at a time and feel I never do any one thing particularly well. I am always behind and always late, with one more thing and one more thing to do before rushing out the door.

#2 I have a lot of anxiety about my life getting lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff. I worry that I’ll die and realize that my life got lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff.

#3 I had been part of an internal work group at the Washington Post researching why so few women were reading the newspaper. I had been tasked with getting the time-use data showing how busy and time-starved women are, particularly mothers.

#4 The idea that women have more leisure time than men is false. Women have at least thirty hours of leisure time every week, but men have more leisure time than they did in the 1960s, even though more women are working outside the home.