Slow Productivity
The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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Cal Newport
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Cal Newport
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace.
Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called 'slow productivity'.
Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on three simple principles:
1. Do fewer things.
2. Work at a natural pace.
3. Obsess over quality.
Examining the stories and habits of ancient and modern scientists, philosophers, artists and scholars who worked in this way, Newport reveals just how transformative the slow productivity approach can be to producing a meaningful body of work.
From managing your energy according to the season, to identifying which projects to pursue and which to set aside, to building a schedule that yields maximum output with minimum stress, this timely and essential book will revolutionise how you work, helping you to accomplish great things at a more humane pace.
'Brilliant and timely' - Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks
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- John Birmingham
- 23-06-2024
Another useful contribution
Like so many people, I first encountered Newport with his best selling nonfiction book Deep Work. I read that book a couple of times and tried hard to apply the lessons. Most of them took, some of them didn’t. But if they didn’t, that was my fault, not his. Most of them did actually take, and my productivity went up by at least 100%. I know that, because like Newport, I am a writer, and my productivity is pretty easy to measure. This latest work didn’t go off like a conceptual bomb inside my head the same way that Deep Work did. But I’m glad that I bought it and read it, and I learned more than enough to make it worthwhile.
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- jmattx
- 08-10-2024
More Relevant Than Ever!
This book gives a good understanding to how to shift away from time wasting and hustle culture and do meaningful things in a sustainable manner. Loved it!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-04-2024
Not too inspiring but worth a read
I liked a world without email a lot but this didn’t grab me. Bit too heavy on the writer examples too. It’s an ok book.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-2024
Predictable tropes, some worthy nuggets
If this book does anything, it states what you already know, but in doing so, confirms the obvious and inspires you to make the changes necessary to produce meaningful work. At times just too simplified and peppy, there is not much new to see here.
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- Cam
- 29-04-2024
Another fantastic book by Cal Newport
Really enjoyed all of Cal’s books. Podcast is also fantastic. Highly recommend if you’re a fan of his work and everything he recommends elsewhere.
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- Janelle
- 15-05-2024
Inspirational Nuggets
It would have been engaging with stricter editing. There were too many long winded examples I didn't connect to and some of the advice wasn't really relevant to the target audience specified by the author.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-08-2024
Some great advice, among a lot of bloat
A handful of great advice and interesting commentary on issues of modern office productivity, but loses focus at times with long winded and unrelatable examples of famous successful people. Would have been better if focused on more relatable everyday people.
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- Greg Mewkill
- 19-03-2024
Idealistic and disappointing
A plethora of cherry picked examples which have only passing relevance to the dynamics of real business. By all means one can choose not to play the business game but don’t pretend THIS is business.
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- Maurice Lacroix
- 12-11-2024
Waffle squared
Total waste of time. Long winded waffle that could be said in 10 pages. Only book I had to delete before finishing...sad!
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