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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - The Two-Million-Copy Bestseller

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Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload?

Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?

Do you ever feel busy but not productive?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an essentialist.

In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a leadership and strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, tells you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. Being an essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. It means challenging the core assumptions of "we can have it all" and "I have to do everything" and replacing them with the pursuit of "the right thing in the right way at the right time".

By applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.

Using the experience and insight of working with the leaders of the most innovative companies and organisations in the world, McKeown narrates and tells you how to put Essentialism into practice in your own life, so you, too, can achieve something great.

© Greg McKeown 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2015

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Greg McKeown’s excellent new book is a much-needed antidote to the stress, burnout and compulsion to “do everything,” that infects us all. It is an essential read for anyone who wants to regain control of their health, wellbeing, and happiness
Do you feel it, too? That relentless pressure to sample all the good things in life? To do all the 'right' things? The reality is, you don’t make progress that way. Instead, you’re in danger of spreading your efforts so thin that you make no impact at all. Greg McKeown believes the answer lies in paring life down to its essentials. He can’t tell you what’s essential to every life, but he can help you find the meaning in yours.
Entrepreneurs succeed when they say "yes" to the right project, at the right time, in the right way. To accomplish this, they have to be good at saying "no" to all their other ideas. Essentialism offers concise and eloquent advice on how to determine what you care about most, and how to apply your energies in ways that ultimately bring you the greatest rewards
Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: how can we do less but accomplish more? A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked—in other words, everyone. It has already changed the way that I think about my own priorities, and if more leaders embraced this philosophy, our jobs and our lives would be less stressful and more productive. So drop what you’re doing and read it.
As a self-proclaimed "maximalist" who always wants to do it all, this book challenged me and improved my life. If you want to work better, not just less, you should read it too.
Great design takes us beyond the complex, the unnecessary and confusing, to the simple, clear and meaningful. This is as true for the design of a life as it is for the design of a product. With Essentialism, Greg McKeown gives us the invaluable guidebook for just such a project.
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It is good overall. two points I dislike, sometimes he talk about other self-help books too much, I already read and learn, I want new insight.
Second, it is written from a white male perspective, the risks and repercussions are different for woman or people of color for different ideas like setting boundaries or choosing opportunity.

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For me, this book conveys important lessons for constructing and maintaining meaning in life. I wish every highschool student would read this before starting life in the hectic world of adulthood.

i wish I had this book 20 years ago

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Très bon livre, lu par l’auteur lui même.
Il aide à déterminer ce qui est essentiel dans nos vies pour la vivre de la meilleure façon.
Très pragmatique et avec de nombreux exemples comme le sont souvent les livres anglo-saxons de ce type. A lire.

Livre essentiel

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great book, everything a new tech founder needs to learn before starting their endeavor

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Difficile à évualuer du fait que l'idée est excellente, l'argumentaire plutôt efficace mais j'ai trouvé le livre inutilement long et répétitif.

Un des livres où je me suis surpris après 2h d'écoute (1/3 du livre) à ne me souvenir qu'une seule idée (la définition de l'essentialism) répétée encore, encore et encore.

Au final, une fois qu'on a compris la définition, le reste du livre reste très prévilisible. Il y a trop peu de travail de fond dans ce livre. Je lui reproche en effet d'utiliser quelques annecdoctes réchauffées et personnalités connues pour son argumentaire en essayant à peine de justifier cela par les chiffres, les études scientifiques ou même une synthèse philosophique.

Je trouve que l'exemple le plus probant de la médiocrité de la réflexion est d'appeler les non-essentialistes les non-essentialistes.

Je pense qu'il y a une différence entre agir pour le maximum d'impact et le moindre effort et la simplification. Et l'auteur illustre dans son bouquin que sa "philosophie" mène à travail de faible qualité intellectuelle même si l'idée est intéressante.

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