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EPISODE · May 12, 2021 · 45 MIN

WORK: Should You Do Less of It? Adam Grant and James Suzman on the 15-Hour Workweek.

from The Next Big Idea · host Next Big Idea Club

Our work consumes us. But does it have to? Anthropologist James Suzman has spent decades living in the Kalahari Desert with one of the world’s last hunter-gatherer societies, and he’s concluded that our modern attitudes about work don’t mesh with the views held by our ancestors. For 95 percent of human history, we spent the bulk of our time doing … nothing. What changed? In this millennia-spanning conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Adam Grant, James makes the case for spending less time toiling away at labor we loathe and more time working at things we love.

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