[MillenniumTalk] 'Be careful what you work for' with Josh Cohen

People love asking us what we want to be when we grow up. But what if they’re asking the wrong question?

Josh Cohen believes there’s a big problem with the way work dominates our lives, and has a vision for a future where work takes a back seat.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Josh Cohen is an academic, practising psychoanalyst, and writer. Cohen is a prolific writer, and his latest book, Not Working: Why we have to stop (2019), radically rethinks our obsession of constant work and seek to live a more fulfilled existence through inactivity. Exploring exhaustion through both literary portrayals and the real burned-out patients he meets in his practice, he investigates the interactions between psychoanalysis, literature and philosophy – and how they all can improve society.