Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg Mckeown
Mezy Fadhila
April 17, 2014
Non-FictionSelf-Help
Why it helps I think related to how the book is structured. Let me show you the table content that reflects its structure:
Introduction
- The Essentialist
Part I: Essence (The Core Mindset)
- CHOOSE: The Invincible Power of Choice
- DISCERN: The Unimportance of Practically Everything
- TRADE-OFF: Which Problem Do I Want?
Part II: Explore (Discern the Vital Few from the Trivial Many)
- ESCAPE, LOOK, PLAY, SLEEP, and SELECT
Part III: Eliminate (Cut Out the Trivial Many)
- CLARIFY, DARE, UNCOMMIT, EDIT, and LIMIT
Part IV: Execute (Make Execution Effortless)
- BUFFER, SUBTRACT, PREPARE, CLARIFY, PROGRESS, and FLOW
Conclusion
- The Essential Life
If I want to connect the dots, I would relate to Eat that Frog!book, when the most important things in our life might just take 10% of very important things. Once you address this 10% well, everything really just the noise that could make your perfectionism and overthinking less bothering.
What I Loved
This could be a bias, but I do trust Harvard Review or Harvard Press, haha I bought it in Harvard Bookstore, so definetely you will find Harvard review here, and Standford as well in this book case. I love them.
Greg emphasize on having sufficient sleep, to be able to well operated as effective human being. DO NOT compromise about sleep.
I had a takeaway on parenting. Short term reward, and big long term reward. Positive ticket. When children do bad things, we have this ticket as punishment right, but when they do good things, we should acknowledge them as well, to be you know, human. People like inspiration, people need to feel good about theirself to sustain the kindness and good things going.
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