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Can't Even
- How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Peterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
An incendiary personal and cultural investigation of burnout.
Are you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow still not doing enough? Has the bottom half of your to-do list been locked in place for months? Is everything becoming work as your job seeps into your evenings, you monetise your hobbies and perform your leisure time on social media?
This is burnout - what increasingly seems like the defining feature of our lives. We are exhausted. But burnout is not a personal failing. It is a creeping part of modern culture, shaped by deep-rooted political, historical and economic forces, and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and inhabit the world.
Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities. Through her own experience, original interviews and detailed analysis, she traces the institutional and generational causes of burnout. And, in doing so, she helps us to let go of our guilt and imagine a possible future.
Reassuring, insightful and galvanising, Can't Even is essential listening for all of us.
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- SiD
- 06-03-21
Really enjoyed this book very thought provoking
It was never a book I would of chosen by myself but I belong to an online book group and this was their choice. strangely, I don't have time to read, so I decided to purchase through audible. Apt! I thought this book would be a bit whiney, but actually it's really opened my eyes to my own life and I am really thankful that I listened to it. Solid research, great synergies, very relatable and actually not excusing at all. I'm left with knowledge and some hard thinking to do.
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- Claybrooke
- 30-01-21
Brilliant, insightful and wonderfully angry
This perfectly describes what it is to be millennial. The author’s own experience is interwoven with personal testimony from many others who come from a wide cross section of backgrounds. It looks at how the social, economic and technological trends of the last few decades have combined to create a system that exhausts and alienates young people. Most importantly it tells us that it doesn’t have to be this way.
As a baby boomer I recognise this misery at play in the lives of my own millennial children. The US has built a particularly toxic version of the system but our UK variant ain’t much better. And now our younger generations have COVID to deal with too! We have some choices to make. Thanks for painting the picture so clearly, engagingly for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-04-21
somewhat disappointing
the author builds the core message around the thought that today's problems (mostly of the millennial generation) are inherently structural (societal, capitalist, patriarchal). I didn't find this thought supported by a multi faceted, thorough analysis, but a rather one sided one (~ everything's changed for the worse). Then the book also fails to address or just to attempt to address the core of the numerous structural problems it raises: responsibility. It pretends we're all just reactively suffering from the inherently bad systems, and with all our actions we just blindly reinforcing them. It is really just scratching the surface of the question of an individual's responsibility on the society. Ultimately it leaves the reader with a bad feeling that really "everything's wrong with what I'm doing, either harming myself or if not myself than necessarily someone else"? Having said all this, I do think there are a lot of valuable thoughts and ideas represented in the book, and I do see the author's potential to make this work complete, because it feels severely unfinished.
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- Customer 15471547
- 09-03-24
Not for me
As a 35 year old British Female, I couldn't get past the 2nd chapter.
The narrative wasn't what I was looking for at all despite reading what it was about before purchasing. It's overall context is very negative rather than helpful, and the author has a whiny overtone. Disappointed.
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- mn8caw
- 23-01-24
Very revealing
Great book - although slightly depressing! I’m an ‘old’ millennial and, even though the book was focussed on the US, the author could have been describing my life. Helps to hold a fresh lens up to it. Maybe I’ll give myself a break more now…
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- Achtel
- 28-06-23
An absolute must read
Literally the best book I've read/listened to all year. So much of the content resonated and I found myself repeatedly nodding along, shaking my head in disbelief and smiling all at the same time. Bravo. 👏🏻
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-06-23
Disappointing
The most boring book I’ve ever listened on Audible. The reader makes it even worse.
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- Joel
- 24-04-23
Everything wrong is the fault of others
Pretty much the premise is there's so many problems and none of them are due to the actions of millenials. I'm a millenial and a bit of personal responsibility is the only thing that is going to fix anything. Just a big whinging session.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-11-21
Worth a listen/read
Some great insights yet to the authors own admission, the narrative falls short of the nuances of intersectionality, leaning heavily to US and white, middle-class female perspectives.
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- Oleks GALKA
- 20-06-21
millenniums burnout
I enjoyed listening to this Audible. I was born in 1991 and I can say many of the things the author has said is very true regarding my generation. I think every generation went through burnout and always will. it a good listen learnt few facts.
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