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and you're watching about books, a program and podcast produced by c-span booktv. well, this week on booktv afterwards program journalist brigid schulte looks at how americans conceive of work and ways to improve quality of life on the job. here's a preview. so when you are in a culture that rewards busyness, that that cares more, if you look productive than if you really are, or that values the long work hours, the input of what you're doing rather than the output, the output. what are you actually creating? what are you actually doing? what's the performance? what's the what's the impact in the world that you're having? if that doesn't matter, you know, then you have a whole lot of people running around trying to look important and busy and sort of perform work that isn't work at all. and and that's what i saw in a lot of us cultures. that's what i saw a lot of in japan and the reason i went to iceland is because they have a short work hours movement there. it's not a four day workweek, but they move. from 40 to 32 hours and they made that available to 85% of the

and you're watching about books, a program and podcast produced by c-span booktv. well, this week on booktv afterwards program journalist brigid schulte looks at how americans conceive of work and ways to improve quality of life on the job. here's a preview. so when you are in a culture that rewards busyness, that that cares more, if you look productive than if you really are, or that values the long work hours, the input of what you're doing rather than the output, the output. what are you actually creating? what are you actually doing? what's the performance? what's the what's the impact in the world that you're having? if that doesn't matter, you know, then you have a whole lot of people running around trying to look important and busy and sort of perform work that isn't work at all. and and that's what i saw in a lot of us cultures. that's what i saw a lot of in japan and the reason i went to iceland is because they have a short work hours movement there. it's not a four day workweek, but they move. from 40 to 32 hours and they made that available to 85% of the

and you're watching about books, a program and podcast produced by c-span booktv. well, this week on booktv afterwards program journalist brigid schulte looks at how americans conceive of work and ways to improve quality of life on the job. here's a preview. so when you are in a culture that rewards busyness, that that cares more, if you look productive than if you really are, or that values the long work hours, the input of what you're doing rather than the output, the output. what are you actually creating? what are you actually doing? what's the performance? what's the what's the impact in the world that you're having? if that doesn't matter, you know, then you have a whole lot of people running around trying to look important and busy and sort of perform work that isn't work at all. and and that's what i saw in a lot of us cultures. that's what i saw a lot of in japan and the reason i went to iceland is because they have a short work hours movement there. it's not a four day workweek, but they move. from 40 to 32 hours and they made that available to 85% of the

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well, thanks for joining us on about books, a program and podcast produced by c-span booktv. booktv will continue to bring you publishing news and author programs and a reminder that you can get this podcast on the c-span. now app and you can also watch online anytime all book tv programs at booktv dot org. hi, richard. i'm so happy to be here to talk with you today about your new book. it'about all the ways are over working culture harms us and also about the ways a potentially fix it. it's a deeply reported book with a ton of research and talk to a lot of people for it. but i think what struck me about it is that your character in it as well and maybe to kind of kick us off, can you talk about the personal place that you wrote this book from? what about your life made you want to write it? yeah, sure. well, first of all, it's so to be in conversation with you. i'm really excited to be here. your work has been really great as well. i'm excited to have this conversation. so this book really it's really a book of journalism it's a it's sort of a journey, if you will, of me as

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every saturday american history tv documents america's stories, and on sundays booktv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more including comcast. >> are you thinking this is just a community center? it's way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with community centers to create wi-fi enabled that sounds so students can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. >> comcast, along with these television companies, supports c-span2 as a public service. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dr. francis collins come in your new book the road to wisdom on truth come sites, faith and trust, you have a biblical quote in there from matthew, chapter 22, first 37, love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. what's the significance of that to you and to your work? >> it's a great place to start, thank thank you, peter. nice to join you. that particular verse resonated a lot with me when i was exploring the possibility of giving up atheism and becoming a christian. ar, your heart, your

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