Petersen Anne Helen - Can't Even How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy Book Riot Business Insider Buzz Feed Daily Nebraskan Entertainment Weekly Esquire Fortune Harper's Bazaar Hello Giggles Linked In O Magazine Time Magazine A razor sharp book of cultural criticism With blistering prose and all - too vivid reporting Petersen lays bare the burnout and despair of millennials while also charting a path to a world where members of her generation can feel as if the boot has been removed from their necks. Esquire An analytically precise deeply empathic book about the psychic toll modern capitalism has taken on those shaped by it. Can t Even is essential to understanding our age and ourselves. Ezra Klein Vox co - founder and New York Times best - selling author of Why We re Polarized An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials the cultural shifts that got us here the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to - do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you re too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt or feel like you work all the time or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era in Can t Even Buzz Feed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to perform our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen's viral Buzz Feed article on the topic which has amassed over seven million reads since its publication in January 2019. Can t Even goes beyond the original article as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this point of burnout (think: unchecked capitalism and changing labor laws) and examines the phenomenon through a variety of lenses including how burnout affects the way we work parent and socialize describing its resonance in alarming familiarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework original interviews and detailed analysis Can t Even offers a galvanizing intimate and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much - maligned generation and will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers trying to understand them.
Title: Can't Even How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
Author(s): Petersen Anne Helen
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358561842
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/4/2021