Time Magazine Review
Written on September 15, 2008
OverSuccess: Healing The American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection
By Jim Rubens, Greenleaf; 451 pages
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1840574,00.html
Sept 11, 2008
The author’s own brush with American urgency has soured him on the 24/7 work life: “The intention of this book is to free me and tens of millions like me from the hamster’s treadmill,” he says. Rubens ties mindless ambition in the U.S. to major depression, addiction, personal and public debt and even the popularity of American Idol. “Unless we change our nation’s culture,” he cautions, “we will die alone and unhappy with our basalt countertops, Sub-Zero wine storage and massive credit-card debt.” Wait–is that bad?
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