Do you check your work emails when you’re on holiday? Do you frequently suffer from the Sunday blues? And do you find yourself thinking about work when you’re sat on the sofa watching your favourite television programme? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions (and I certainly used to) then Sarah Knight’s “no-f**ks-given” best-selling book should be essential reading for you.
We work in museums because we love what we do. However, sometimes our enthusiasm and commitment can mean that we take on way too much. When I started my career in the sector, I was so conscious of saying yes to everything and pleasing everyone to the point that I ended up never being able to switch off – until I read this book.
Knight explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations that we’re pressured into and feel guilty about not doing. For example, trying to dial into a conference call while sat on the floor of a packed train that’s about to go through a tunnel.
This book, instead, promotes giving wholehearted time and energy – your f**ks – to the people and projects that matter most to your job.
From managing your “f**k budget” to applying the “NotSorry Method”, this is the kind of self-help book that will have you laughing out loud, rethinking the way in which you work and caring less about the things that don’t matter in your career, so that you can spend more of your time on the things that do.
We work in museums because we love what we do. However, sometimes our enthusiasm and commitment can mean that we take on way too much. When I started my career in the sector, I was so conscious of saying yes to everything and pleasing everyone to the point that I ended up never being able to switch off – until I read this book.
Knight explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations that we’re pressured into and feel guilty about not doing. For example, trying to dial into a conference call while sat on the floor of a packed train that’s about to go through a tunnel.
This book, instead, promotes giving wholehearted time and energy – your f**ks – to the people and projects that matter most to your job.
From managing your “f**k budget” to applying the “NotSorry Method”, this is the kind of self-help book that will have you laughing out loud, rethinking the way in which you work and caring less about the things that don’t matter in your career, so that you can spend more of your time on the things that do.
Clare Lawlor is a producer in the public engagement and learning department at Imperial War Museums
