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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Good book I've heard some of it elsewhere but I really liked how this put it all together.
Another book I had to read for school, but a great book on how to break though your mental stuff to just get. things. done.
Ugh. I loved The Power of Habit, so I went into this one with high hopes. Having just finished Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, this somehow felt like almost the same book except worse. I gave up after what felt like an eon of reading the word-for-word transcript of a plane going down. It just droned on and on, and I felt like, three chapters in, I still had no idea what the point of the book was.
No secrets were revealed. Nothing in this book helped to make me more productive. It felt like each chapter was taken from another, better, more useful book, and they were squished together into this. Don't bother.
No secrets were revealed. Nothing in this book helped to make me more productive. It felt like each chapter was taken from another, better, more useful book, and they were squished together into this. Don't bother.
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
I'd put this at around a 2.5 - most of the illustrative stories/case studies were really compelling to listen to in themselves (the opening story of the successful businessman who (pathologically) loses his motivation after a vacation to Latin America; the development of the "Frozen" storyline; the gripping lead-ups to one aviation disaster and one near-disaster (p.s. don't read this on a plane)). But the "secrets" derived from them (e.g. make S.M.A.R.T. goals, visualize, articulate why you are doing specific tasks to feel more motivated, etc) aren't exactly groundbreaking.
Although I enjoyed this book, it wasn't what I needed. I hoped for more productivity secrets. His stories are good, and there are good ideas. Maybe the Power of Habit is better.
Great information. Totally approachable. A must read.