“To hell with that way of living,” says Greg McKeown. When there is a problem, we usually start working longer and harder. That everything that matters should require a lengthy process, a lot of meetings, money, and time away from your family. That all important decisions should be hard to make. Mainly because the current mindset of a regular worker is that success requires struggle. What the author is trying to communicate with the book.īut transforming the most important things in our life to become easy-peasy tasks seems, I don’t know, too good to be true. Lesson #1: Think How You Can Make The Essential Projects Easier To Do
Lesson #3: More Effort Doesn’t Produce Better Performance.Lesson #2: Constantly Ask Yourself: What If This Project Could Be Easier?.
Lesson #1: Think How You Can Make The Essential Projects Easier To Do.If when there is a problem you say, “I will work harder” instead of “how can I become more efficient,” get and read the book. And I’ll highly recommend it to perfectionists who set impossible-to-achieve goals and adopt the habit of working their fingers to the bone – but eventually quit because what they’ve created is not perfect according to their standards. Reason To Read:Įffortless is a good fit for overthinkers and overachievers. But when you think about it, you can sense why it’s precious to stop and consider how you can reduce your efforts. The idea might sound laughable at first – “Important tasks are always hard,” we say to ourselves. Thus, the text is helping us divorce the concept that important things should be hard and find an easier, simpler path to achieve our goals and live the life we want. As he states: “Essentialism was about doing the right things Effortless is about doing them in the right way.” Not everything that is important should be hard. The Core Idea:Īpparently, the author wasn’t living to what he suggested in his previous book and that’s why he wrote another one – this one. And while I can label most of the text as common sense, there are few gems hiding beneath the dusty veneer of mediocrity. The not-everything-has-to-be-so-hard mantra is presented in a 3-step process called The Effortless Way. McKeown tries to convince us, by sharing widely popular stories of successful people you’ve already probably heard (especially if you’re a fan of self-help books), that important tasks can be easy to do. Plainly, in this read, he talks about how the right things shouldn’t take Herculean efforts to complete. The Book In Three Or More Sentences:Īn extraordinarily ordinary book by the best-seller of Essentialism, Greg McKeown. Written by book fanatic and online librarian Ivaylo Durmonski. Covering the key ideas and proposing practical ways for achieving what’s mentioned in the text. It is an idea whose time has come.This is a comprehensive summary of the book Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown. It is a discipline you apply constantly, effortlessly.
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In Essentialism, Greg McKeown draws on experience and insight from working with the leaders of the most innovative companies in the world to show how to achieve the disciplined pursuit of less.īy applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.Įssentialism isn’t one more thing it is a different way of doing everything. It’s about regaining control of our own choices about where to spend our time and energies instead of giving others implicit permission to choose for us. It’s about challenging the core assumption of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’. It’s about getting only the right things done. The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. The Way of the Essentialist involves doing less, but better, so you can make the highest possible contribution.
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