Feel-Good Productivity
How to Do More of What Matters to You
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How to Do More of What Matters to You
Ratings2
Average rating3.3
The secret to productivity isn’t discipline. It’s joy. We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s another way? Dr Ali Abdaal – the world's most-followed productivity expert – has uncovered an easier and happier path to success. Drawing on decades of psychological research, he has found that the secret to productivity and success isn't grind – it's feeling good. If you can make your work feel good, then productivity takes care of itself. In this revolutionary book, Ali reveals how the science of feel-good productivity can transform your life. He introduces the three hidden 'energisers' that underpin enjoyable productivity, the three 'blockers' we must overcome to beat procrastination, and the three 'sustainers' that prevent burnout and help us achieve lasting fulfillment. He recounts the inspiring stories of founders, Olympians, and Nobel-winning scientists who embody the principles of Feel-Good Productivity. And he introduces the simple, actionable changes that you can use to achieve more and live better, starting today. Armed with Ali’s insights, you won’t just accomplish more. You’ll feel happier and more fulfilled along the way.
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I really enjoyed this book at the beginning. I was connecting with the experiments and works cited in it and highlighting a ton of passages that I thought would be useful in the future. But after the halfway point I'd say it took a dip in terms of quality, and finally it capped off with some pretty interesting exercises, ending on a good note.
I believe feeling good about what we're doing is crucial in determining how much we can keep doing it, and this book left me with that idea well cemented in my head. It also provided a new angle for me to look at people, from the way I engage with them to the way I can even “use” them as a sort of accountability tool.
It made me look at procrastination differently as well, having to go deep into it and analyze why we truly sometimes can't find the motivation to do something. Not always can we accomplish something off of pure discipline, we must have more to it.
Among other useful ideas, this book delivered and accomplished its goal, in my opinion, which is to serve as a starting point for one to form a solid foundation of productivity and goals for the short, mid and long term.
This book is progressing very slowly for me and it has put me into a serious reading slump. Instead of DNF-ing the book, I decided to flip through the pages quickly, checking the titles, sub-titles and random passages that interested me. It is clear that there is a lot of information, techniques and ideas jam-packed in there. The writing style, perhaps, is not for me, though. As other readers have mentioned, there is too much “padding” and I fully agree. A condensed version of this book might have been more palatable.
