![]() ![]() McKeown writes that we all have things we like to do, and things we don’t, but must do due to their importance. As a result, Red Nose Day has managed to raise £1 billion for the most disadvantaged people in Africa and depressed areas within the UK. Reduce the Lag Indicator to Make the Essential Effortlessīritish activist Jane Tweson brought charity and comedy together as a way to make giving easier. (For more on Ferriss’ other questions, read Tools of Titans.) 2. When Tim Ferriss needed to make a sales quota in an earlier job, he asked himself, “What would this look like if it were easy?” and realized he could close more prospects if he called earlier than the other sales reps. He calls this idea, Effortless Inversion and, while rooted in problem-solving, is helpful in other areas, too. McKeown invites the reader to look at problems from the opposite perspective and ask, “What if this could be easy?” as a means to reset one’s thinking. As a result, we make things harder for ourselves than they need to be. This is because we’re conditioned to believe that we must also overdo if we are to overachieve. McKeown realized, later, that trying too hard makes it harder to get the results you want. In his own words, “It was my most humiliating professional failure-ever.” However, due to his over-preparedness, he bombed. In chapter 1, McKeown shares an experience where a company invited him to present to an audience on leadership. Reduce the lag indicator to make the essential effortless. ![]() Surpassing Essentialism was undoubtedly challenging for McKeown, but he’s done a fine job writing a book that rivals his first. That said, I appreciate McKeown’s ability to simplify complex ideas and distill them in one book around one central theme. Covering topics that have been written about elsewhere is fine, of course, but I was hoping to see a fresh take on the idea. While I enjoyed Effortless, I couldn’t help but feel many of McKeown’s ideas have been covered elsewhere (and in greater detail).įor instance, Effortless Inversion is better known as inversion, a mental model with a chapter of its own in Shane Parrish’s, The Great Mental Models Vol. General ThoughtsĮffortless is Greg McKeown’s long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling debut book, Essentialism. ‘In his inspiring and important follow-up to Essentialism, Greg McKeown masterfully flips this script, arguing instead that the more essential the task, the more effortless we should make its completion.Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want without burning out. ‘Every once in a while, a new book comes along at just the right moment… Greg McKeown’s new book couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary’ – Eve Rodsky, author of the New York Times bestseller, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) ![]() ‘This book is your salvation…In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential’ – Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell is Human No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. With actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Now the bestselling author of Essentialism, Greg McKeown, joins How To Academy with a practical guide to getting the most important tasks done. Stuck in an endless loop of “zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. And the more depleted we get, the harder it is to make progress. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. The Effortless philosophy means starting with one simple principle: not everything has to be so hard.Īs high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. The author of the life-changing million-copy bestseller Essentialism joins us to show that ‘achieving more doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it out to be’ (Arianna Huffington).ĭo you ever feel like you are teetering right on the edge of burnout? Do you want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? Are you running faster but not moving closer to your goals? Is everything so much harder than it used to be? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these, the solution is Effortless.
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