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ladyreadinton's review
3.0
This is a quick read. I really liked the first part of the book about highlighting. There are some great tips about ways to prioritize the things that are important to you. The authors acknowledge the fact that not everyone has the same flexibility to carve out personal time. It was interesting to read about what works for them. Scheduling every waking moment of each day is not at all appealing to me.
yuu3008's review
4.0
The main idea is pretty simple, you must define your highlight - the one thing that finishing it will make your day, energize yourself to maintain the laser mode, and keep on reflecting to refine your own system. During the process, the book gave a bunch of tips to free yourself from what the authors called "busy bandwagon" and "infinity pools".
Altogether, a succinct, straightforward, and therefore quite practical book. I learned some lessons and will try to include those habits to my daily routine, so I gave this book a 4-star with the hope of me being a better (and more productive) person shortly after practicing the methods mentioned here.
Altogether, a succinct, straightforward, and therefore quite practical book. I learned some lessons and will try to include those habits to my daily routine, so I gave this book a 4-star with the hope of me being a better (and more productive) person shortly after practicing the methods mentioned here.
adverb's review
inspiring
3.5
I wanted to like this book more. The beginning started off really strong, and I liked the idea of a highlight at the start of your day. But then I think the book just fell into "bite-sized tips" and was more quantity than quality. Also, some of the suggestions just seemed very out of touch. For instance, one of them said "try walking to work to get some exercise". The authors, who lived in SFO at the time, forgot the majority of their audience lives in suburbia or rural areas, where work is 10+ miles away.
If you don't read self-help books, I think you will enjoy this more. If you do read them a bit, I don't think you're gonna find anything new. The first 25% of this book is solid, but I don't know much you will get from the "tips". For the authors who spent time in the trenches creating these apps, I was hoping for a more nuanced discussion on how to manage your screentime beyond just "Delete the apps from your phone".
If you don't read self-help books, I think you will enjoy this more. If you do read them a bit, I don't think you're gonna find anything new. The first 25% of this book is solid, but I don't know much you will get from the "tips". For the authors who spent time in the trenches creating these apps, I was hoping for a more nuanced discussion on how to manage your screentime beyond just "Delete the apps from your phone".