Accomplish more by doing less antidotes to busyness and practices for a calmer, more productive life a certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become very busy, expending extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc lesser’s new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more—more desire, activity, things and exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. The ideas and practices that lesser outlines offer a radical yet simple approach to transforming a lifestyle based on endless to-do lists into a meaningful approach that is more productive in every sense