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Stuffocation
- Living More with Less
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Trend forecaster James Wallman reveals the world's growing sense of stuffocation - and how we can move away from it.
We have more stuff than we could ever need - clothes we don't wear, kit we don't use, and toys we don't play with. But having everything we thought we wanted isn't making us happier. It's bad for the planet. It's cluttering up our homes. It's making us feel 'stuffocated' and stressed - and it might even be killing us.
Trend forecaster James Wallman finds that a rising number of people are turning their backs on all-you-can-get consumption, from the telecoms exec who's sold almost everything he owns to the well-off family who have moved into a remote mountain cabin.
Wallman's solution to our clutter crisis is less extreme but equally fundamental. We have to transform what we value. We have to focus less on possessions and more on experiences. Rather than a new watch or another pair of shoes, we should invest in shared experiences like holidays and time with friends.
With intriguing insights on psychology, economics and culture, Stuffocation is a vital manifesto for change. It has inspired those who have heard it to be happier and healthier and to live more with less.
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- Sean
- 23-12-19
Thought provoking book
Really enjoyed this book. Certainly makes you think and I had a really cathartic clear out of stuff after listening.
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- JM
- 10-09-16
interesting content - narrators voice not so good
struggled to stay awake with narrators stuffy accent and dull voice. book is probably better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-04-19
Great content but very condescending
Stuggled to finish this. Shame it wasnt read by the writer who has a lovely voice. Wouldnt have finished it unless id heard the author in interview and I loved what he had to say. The reading of the book was smug and railroading. The voice was tolerable but doing accents was weird. didn't enjoy the experience but I did like what I got out of it.
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- ali
- 14-12-18
Like the book. Not the narrator
I enjoy the principle of this book but I find the narrator too monotonous in tone, couldn't finish this suspicion for this reason
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- Hannah
- 16-02-20
Boring
Whilst there were some good ideas in this book, I think they could have been summed up in about 15 minutes. I liked the overall concept, but it was very repetitive and waffley. I like the idea of stuffocation and experientialism though.
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- Robertn625
- 12-01-20
Meh, whatever
Shallow and one dimensional.
Can be summed up in a sentence: “but less stuff and you’ll have more money and less things to deal with.”
It’s all available for free on The Minimalists (who are the focus of the book) and again, their site become very samey very quickly.
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- Emily
- 17-07-16
Tenuous, badly written, over dramatised rubbish
Tenuous, badly written, over dramatised rubbish. The author loosely tries to base his conclusions that everyone's at risk of dying from clutter on unrelated scientific evidence.
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