Tag: Grind

Over Work Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life [Audiobook]


Free Download Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3W2KQ2 | 2024 | 12 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Brigid Schulte
Narrator: Rachel Perry

From the New York Times bestselling author, a deeply reported exploration of why American work isn’t working and how our lives can be made more meaningful. Following Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte’s groundbreaking examination of time management and stress, the prizewinning journalist now turns her attention to the greatest culprit in America’s quality-of-life crisis: the way our economy and culture conceive of work. Americans across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels report exhaustion, burnout, and the wish for more meaningful lives. This full-system failure in our structure of work affects everything from gender inequality to domestic stability, and it even shortens our lifespans.

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Free from the Grind A Cross-Country Bicycle Adventure


Free Download David Heflin, "Free from the Grind: A Cross-Country Bicycle Adventure"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1098328043 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.4 mb
David is a middle-aged university administrator dealing with the dull routines of long work weeks, diapers, snowblowers and bills. He escapes from the daily grind and takes to the road on a bicycle with the goal of pedaling across the country in twenty-eight days. This physical challenge turns into a pilgrimage of sorts, with the stories of pilgrims he meets along the way informing the lessons learned during the adventure. The stories from the road highlight the path to self-discovery that is central to David’s pilgrimage.

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The Grind Inside Baseball’s Endless Season


Free Download Barry Svrluga, "The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season"
English | 2016 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0399575952 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Built on material that appeared inThe Washington Post, this is a raw, inside look at the wear and tear and the glory and impermanence of baseball-shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.

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