Working Hard, Hardly Working: How to achieve more, stress less and feel fulfilled: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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From an anonymous translation, circa 893, of Historiarum Adversum Paganos ( History Against the Pagans), by Orosius. The earliest OED example for the adverb “hard” is from Crist III, an anonymous Old English poem about the Last Judgment: “Nis ænig wundor hu him woruldmonna seo unclæne gecynd … hearde ondrede” (“It is not any wonder how hard he dreaded the unclean nature of man on earth”). If it's self-doubt, it's all about breaking it right down and asking, 'why do I have a problem with this?

She has little to no experience other than graduating university in a field unrelated to her career. However, although this book is marketed for everyone I think it is a lot more transferable for those who are self employed or have their own management of their work load. I enjoyed most of the book and I feel like I got what I needed from it + some tips or tricks that I'd like to implement. You do ask good questions, but you interrupt, give your own opinion, over explain your points, you say ‘whatever it might be’ all the time, you constantly input ‘if it was me’, ‘I’d be like’ or talk about yourself. In 2021, she was praised for an ASOS campaign where she modelled for ASOS’ earrings wearing the implant and became a figurehead in the deaf community.I found myself writing loads of notes in a diary alongside reading and feel super motivated to implement her advice into my working life. A lot of what was said was in a very roundabout way and could have been summarised a lot more precisely. Some chapters felt diluted or unclear, resembling more the transcript of someone giving a talk rather than a book. I loved Grace’s humour and writing style, it felt like a loving, at times tough love pep talk with a close friend over dinner.

So while I was coming to the realisation that I had NOT a F*cking Clue™️ whether I was lazy, burned out, entitled, lost, working hard, hardly working or all of the above, I began to conclude that no one did either. Born to parents who moved from Bangladesh to East London, she was raised alongside her seven siblings and Rokeya has always been really honest about her childhood, opening up about her teen pregnancy at 17 years old where she was then made homeless, moving from hostel to hostel and barely affording the basic necessities. A quick discussion of familiar concepts critiquing working culture looked at through the lens of the Gen-Z/ millennial generations which challenges the stereotypes that we are both lazy and unmotivated yet are also prone to overworking and experiencing burnout. The points around this topic were over repeated and over explained to the point that the book must feel a bit strange for someone who is in neither of these generations. There's a lot of that that we've internalised from different industries, and I think that can be really, really harmful.The author is an influencer and her businesses were created using a ‘business in a box’ influencer company, cashing in on her social media following. We need to look at self care and productivity as two sides of the same coin because you cannot have one without the other. She talks about how she was determined to turn it around and exactly how she did that, after her journey on becoming a teenage mother to then going back into education and going to university to study law to realising she couldn't study law because she couldn't afford the LPC.