klemens Hermann
Book review: Crazy Busy
Being busy is no surprise to our culture. We face busyness everyday. It has become part of our culture. Almost everyone I know has some form of busyness in their lives, and if they aren't busy then they feel bad or guilty. Most peoples lives are scheduled in a way that keeps them active. Nobody likes to just have nothing planed because we wouldn't know what to do with all the time. While staying active and having places to be isn't bad, there is a point where busyness can take over your life and become a problem. If you feel like your busy schedule has taken over your life and something needs to be done to fix it, then you would enjoy the book Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung. He connects with the reader by explaining how busy his own life is and how being busy has become part of our lives. In the first chapter he illustrates this idea by telling the story of a Woman who came to the US and started introducing herself as, “busy” because thats what everyone would say first.
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He hopes that his book will help us see that we need change and structure in our busy lives. he asks questions like, “What is the difference between good busyness and bad busyness? How do you discern the difference in your own life?”. These questions help the readers to identify the the main issues of being over busy and hopefully find a solution.
Personally I found the questions and solutions presented by DeYoung to be rudimentary and not helpful. I feel that he approaches the concept of how to deal business in the wrong way at times. For example; In chapter 8 he says the sabbath is a day used for relaxation and spending time with yourself, to recharge in a sense. I feel that he missed the idea that the sabbath is suppose to be a day we rest but also focus on God and how we should be living wholly for
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Tim Kreider’s “The ‘Busy’ Trap” from The New York Times (June 30, 2012) explores the different worlds of both, the busy and the free. His article evaluates and persuades the American working class to stop for a second and reassess their constantly busy lifestyles. His knowledge comes from his own and other’s life experiences. Relating on a personal level, Kreider encourages his audience to recognize that being busy may make them feel important, but they are sacrificing all their valuable time life has given them. In fact, he influences them to think about how much stress their work is, and how it most likely won’t amount to anything. He does this through logos, providing personal anecdotes and common knowledge; ethos, demonstrating that he
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But overall, I understood most of what he was trying to say (at least I believe I do). I’m not sure if I would have any challenges for him, mainly because I don’t think I understood some of it (to be completely
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Kreider has made some bold conclusions or outcomes with little evidence to support other than his opinion. I think he is stereotyping groups of people and sharing his opinion of their definition of busy and others who read this article may feel the same way. A example of him committing this fallacy is when he he says “Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour with classes and extra-curricular activities. They come home at the end of the day as tired as grown ups” (Krieder, 983). This commits the hasty generalization fallacy because thats his point of view and only his. Also, what he said about the children being busy all the time makes me wonder where is he getting that information from and why doesn’t he provide any outside information supporting what he said. An opportunity could be to change some of the words on his opinion to ensure that it is allowing others to think about this population who think they are too busy and allow the reader to think about his own life to determine if they are victim to this scenario. I don’t think it allows others to think about it when it reads as if Kreider is an experts and what he is saying is the
...lead to stress-another thing that is so common. If one chose to live simpler lifestyles and slow down their lives a bit and relax rather than overwhelming themselves with so much, maybe they would be able to enjoy their lives more. Managing time will lead to extra time to go out and create memories, and focus on living and being happy. When one departs from this world, they will think of their past and recall memories and become content with they fact that they did not let their time slip away being overwhelmed and completely trapped in the world while working their lives away to simply satisfy their materialistic needs. One will look back and remember that they lived a life of meaning, a true everlasting joy to know that they lived a great life.
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