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A review by greenadex
Working Hard, Hardly Working by Grace Beverley
3.0
Read this book as part of a book club from work.
I had no idea who Grace Beverly was and overall I was pretty clueless about the book's contents or its target audience when I started reading it. All I knew was that I wanted to have a conversation about work and I wanted to reflect upon my approach and motivation and this book seemed as good a start as any other.
I enjoyed most of the book and I feel like I got what I needed from it + some tips or tricks that I'd like to implement. Personally I enjoyed most the chapters on productivity, flow, success and the art of doing nothing. I got to reflect a lot on what works and what doesn't for me, whether the definitions that I have set up are relevant and whether the strategies that I adopt for work and personal life are really effective or beneficial. Admittedly, I've never read a business+self-help type of book before so I'm guessing that the contents of these chapter are not, by any means, innovative but I do think that the way the narrative of these chapters is built up, you can get some meaningful ideas out of it, especially if this your first book in the genre.
I was pretty surprised that there was so much talk about Gen Z and Millennials, probably because I didn't really know who the author was. I'm a Millennial, borderline Gen Z myself, but I found the amount of talk around these generations a bit too excessive or unnecessary. The points around this topic were over repeated and over explained to the point that the book must feel a bit strange for someone who is in neither of these generations. Some chapters felt diluted or unclear, resembling more the transcript of someone giving a talk rather than a book. The first 40 pages or so of the book were hard to get through personally due to the points mentioned beforehand, but I don't regret continuing to read it as it definitely gets better afterwards.
I had no idea who Grace Beverly was and overall I was pretty clueless about the book's contents or its target audience when I started reading it. All I knew was that I wanted to have a conversation about work and I wanted to reflect upon my approach and motivation and this book seemed as good a start as any other.
I enjoyed most of the book and I feel like I got what I needed from it + some tips or tricks that I'd like to implement. Personally I enjoyed most the chapters on productivity, flow, success and the art of doing nothing. I got to reflect a lot on what works and what doesn't for me, whether the definitions that I have set up are relevant and whether the strategies that I adopt for work and personal life are really effective or beneficial. Admittedly, I've never read a business+self-help type of book before so I'm guessing that the contents of these chapter are not, by any means, innovative but I do think that the way the narrative of these chapters is built up, you can get some meaningful ideas out of it, especially if this your first book in the genre.
I was pretty surprised that there was so much talk about Gen Z and Millennials, probably because I didn't really know who the author was. I'm a Millennial, borderline Gen Z myself, but I found the amount of talk around these generations a bit too excessive or unnecessary. The points around this topic were over repeated and over explained to the point that the book must feel a bit strange for someone who is in neither of these generations. Some chapters felt diluted or unclear, resembling more the transcript of someone giving a talk rather than a book. The first 40 pages or so of the book were hard to get through personally due to the points mentioned beforehand, but I don't regret continuing to read it as it definitely gets better afterwards.