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Self-help Happiness

The Weekend Effect

The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

by (author) Katrina Onstad

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
Happiness, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781443453448
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $32.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443449250
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780062440181
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $25.99 USD
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443449274
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443449267
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $18.99
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    ISBN
    9780062440198
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
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Description

A well-lived weekend is the gateway to a well-lived life. The Weekend Effect shows us how by saving the weekend we can save ourselves.

The weekend—the once-sacred forty-eight hours of leisure—has been lost to overbooked schedules, pinging devices and encroaching work demands. Many of us are working more hours than we did a decade ago, and worse, we allow those hours to slide over seven days a week, giving us no respite to tune out and recharge.

We don’t need the research to tell us that this is hurting us. Our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are weak and our productivity is down. It wasn’t long ago that working less and living more was considered a virtue. So what happened?

In The Weekend Effect, journalist Katrina Onstad, herself suffering from Sunday-night letdown, digs into the history, the positive psychology and the cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend. She pushes back against the all-work, no-fun ethos and follows the trail of people, companies and countries who are vigilantly protecting their weekends for joy, for adventure and, most important, for meaning. Readers of The Happiness Project, All Joy and No Fun and Thrive will find personal and business inspiration in Onstad’s well-researched argument to re-frame our weekends.

 

About the author

KATRINA ONSTAD is a multiple award–winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Onstad lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.

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Editorial Reviews

“[A] thoughful, life-affirming work.”

<em>The Globe and Mail</em>

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