Celeste Headlee

But important, life-changing events are influenced and affected by the words we choose to say or leave unspoken.

There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency. The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

technology didn’t create this cult; it simply added to an existing culture.

Here’s the bottom line: We are lonely, sick, and suicidal.

I expected to feel a lift, an easing of the stress

Instead of cooking the tried-and-true favorites in my recipe book

too many of us have been lured into the cult of efficiency.

What is the cult of efficiency? It’s a group whose members believe fervently in the virtue of constant activity, in finding the most efficient way to accomplish just about anything and everything. They are busy all the time and they take it on faith that all their effort is saving time and making their lives better.

The human drive to constantly improve and grow is innate and, in most ways, commendable.

slipping into despair.