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holly_keimig's review
2.0
I was excited about the premise of this book. It had some good ideas and some good quotes and places to look elsewhere for ideas, but the book itself was a bit repetitive. Non-productivity is a tricky subject to cover in a way that makes someone want to be productive enough to finish reading the book about it. I think there are likely better options than this in that genre, but overall not a terrible read and not bad to listen to while getting things done.
hanbanshee's review
4.0
Maybe not especially my style (esp with the host of "successful public figures" interviewed to provide advice), and a little too committed to "productivity without the productivity guilt" ... as a part of me is as well, so I suppose I can't be too critical. I did like how Dore stays with the complexity of a lot of the mental challenges and blocks faced by those of us that struggle with this juncture. She encourages staying with the "both and" of what our brains can be so quick to try to turn into binary opposites we must choose between. This is the crux of the whole book's advice, and maybe it doesn't always recognise just *how* difficult it can be to carve out this space in the world we find ourselves in (with real-life capitalist imperatives, survival pressures, and also, you know, trauma/mental illness/inherited shit/etc). It does however challenge our desire for a quick fix, the magical solution to all ills, if we just found the "right" schedule/practice/sequence/tool that our problems would fade away. The other useful part of the text is that it delineates the many different but interrelated thinking and habit traps that are involved in the complex thing we call "procrastination". Given how many chapters there are to this book, it is very much a helpful read for anyone that things there is just one root cause of procrastination that will be easily overcome by just "trying" hard enough. I do wish I'd read this in my early twenties, it would have been particularly helpful then.
fabianagarciam's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.5