As a society we are suffering from information overload and opinion overload due to increased connectivity from technologyĬhapter 2: Choose – The Invincible Power of Choice. Success can distract us from focusing on the essential things that produce success in the first place. The pursuit of success can be the catalyst for failure. Phase 4: We become distracted from what would otherwise be our highest level of contribution. Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts. Then we are presented with increased options and opportunities. Phase 2: When we have success, we gain a reputation as a go-to person. Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it enables us to succeed at our endeavor. If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will. Life your life by design, not by default. I hope there’s some meat and insight beyond what’s obvious here. If it’s just to have focus, I’ll be very disappointed. I really hope that this book isn’t just this point and then several hours of fluff. Reader’s note: Okay, he just spent a couple minutes talking about how saying no to things that don’t seem a priority and choosing to focus on things that are important makes him more effective and productive. Hopefully, I can come out of it with a more simplified perspective, drilling down to the essentials. This has been on Audible my wish list for a while, and I thought it would be a good time to read while in lockdown. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.” -Audible 
It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything.
It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.īy forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It’s about getting only the right things done. The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. “Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Synopsis:
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