How to be bored /

In the latest installment of the acclaimed School of Life series, learn how to make peace with your down time-and even benefit from it. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing, but in the modern world the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hyperactive, over-s...

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Main Author: Hoffman, Eva, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2017.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Series:School of life (Series)
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