Toronto writer Brian Francis recommends three self-help books on The Next Chapter with Ali Hassan.
Toronto author and The Next Chapter columnist Brian Francis stopped by The Next Chapter to review three self-help books about solitude, idleness and baking bread.Tired of hustle culture? Writer and The Next Chapter columnist Brian Francis recommends three books to help slow things down and smell the roses: Solitude by Michael Harris Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee and Bread Therapy by Pauline Beaumont.
"You do need to carve out times when you really aren't being productive at all like you're going for a walk and you don't know the destination or you're setting off on something where there's no end goal in sight, you're just being mindful of your time," said Francis.Solitude is a self-help book by Michael Harris.
Through two sections on work culture and how to prioritize leisure, Headlee offers tangible ways of "doing nothing." Our lives are so busy and all the more reason to take on activities that slow us down and reconnect us to our physicality."Our lives are so busy and all the more reason to take on activities that slow us down and reconnect us to our physicality," said Francis."She says by making our own bread, it grounds us. It gives us a soothing experience and she says there's something sort of miraculous, if you will, about combining flour and water and yeast and then you create a loaf.
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