The Wellness Syndrome Quotes

“Obsessively tracking our wellness, while continuously finding new avenues of self-enhancement, leaves little room to live.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“Versions of positive psychology engineered in business schools have been called into question, not just because they are based on shaky assumptions, but also because they appear to be harbingers of a vision of capitalism where exploitation and hierarchies are promoted as a common good.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“Business schools have always had a complicated relationship to science, and have a long tradition of repackaging ideology as academic studies.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“The question that is left unanswered here is what we should do when we have become more productive. How should we use the time that has now been freed up? The answer, it seems, is to find new ways to be even more productive.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“Talent management is popular because it helps legitimize and normalize horrendously inflated pay cheques. ‘This “talent mind-set” is the new orthodoxy of American management,’ Malcolm Gladwell wrote more than a decade ago. ‘It is the intellectual justification for why such a high premium is placed on degrees from first-tier business schools, and why the compensation packages for top executives have become so lavish.’25 According to this line of thought, it is entirely acceptable that some people are rewarded inordinately while others are left empty handed.”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Carl Cederström, The Wellness Syndrome