![]() He describes the difference between the two books as ' Essentialism was about doing the right things. If you've read McKeown's Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less you'll know what he's talking about. It can help when you feel that life has already been stripped down to its essentials and it still feels impossible to cope. There is, you see, a different way: great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.īefore you start to wonder if this book might be the answer to all your problems I'd better tell you that Greg McKeown is clear that life can be hard for all sorts of reasons and the book can't eliminate those hardships. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. He made a bargain with God if he survived, he would make some changes. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative. Check out summaries from The Business Source, where you can watch, read, or listen to the big ideas from a great book in under 20 minutes.Summary: We tend to think that important things are hard but the easy must be trivial. What’s the fastest way to learn the big ideas from a great business book? Book summaries. You can check out some of my highlights and notes from this book on GoodReads. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with The New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg and Steve MagnessĪtomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear The Effortless Summary comes right before the Conclusion.Įssentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Greg McKeown wrote an “Effortless Summary” you can use to review the book before and as you read. I always review the Table of Contents before I begin reading a book for a quick overview of what’s ahead and how the pieces will fit together. That will give you the context and framework to learn more from Effortless. If you have not read Essentialism, I suggest reading it before you read Effortless. As Greg McKeown puts it “Essentialism was about doing the right things E ffortlessis about doing them in the right way.” If you want to make the work you do and the life you live less onerous, absorb and apply the central message of this book. It will make a difference.”įor Effortless, I suggest something else. In 2016, I wrote this in my review of Essentialism: “If you want to clean out the closet of your life, buy this book and do the work. Sometimes, the easier alternative is just not doing something. He means looking for an easier alternative to everything. He means not equating effortful work with better work. Instead, he means not assuming the more effort you put in, the better. Greg McKeown doesn’t use effortless to mean magical or easy either. He’s talking about the need for discipline. My friend Terry Moore likes to say, “Every significant thing you’ve ever done was hard.” Terry means it won’t be magical and automatic, you’ll have to do some work. Each of us has, as Robert Frost wrote, ‘promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep.’ No matter what challenges, obstacles, or hardships we encounter along the way, we can always look for the easier, simpler path.” “If you take away just one message from this book, I hope it is this: life doesn’t have to be as hard and complicated as we make it. McKeown tackles the purpose of the book and the answer to my question in a statement at the very end of the book. What if you still had too much to do? What if the question is capacity?Įffortless purports to answer that question. ![]() I wanted to know what you did if you pared things down all you can, and it still wasn’t enough. I also wanted to answer an important question that Essentialismdidn’t answer for me. I bought Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most because Essentialism was such a great book. It’s one of a small number of books I review often. I gave it a rave review on my site and on Amazon in 2016. I loved Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown.
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