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The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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Cal Newport
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Cal Newport
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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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Cal Newport does it again with this counter intuitive title!
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I found the narration style to be a bit too flat. A more natural style, a bit like his podcast, would probably work better.
Very helpful
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In this book Newport (again) encapsulate how to perform at maximum quality delivery in knowledge work, but in a consistent approach over 3 main pillars: quality, doing less, natural pace. During the narration I found pretty great examples in arts, music, writers about how great results are based on the practice of strategic slowness.
If you read Newport before, this book is a new gold work for more improvements to knowledge workers.
Finally, it is an awesome ending to years of promoting the concept of slow productivity, I've been following Newport since years on the podcast and others interviews since the concept first arise. In the book there are more surprises that in the online content wasn't mentioned.
A game changer on quality over productivity
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Slow is fast and fast is slow
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Very practical examples of the main concepts of slow productivity
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A Timely Message!
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Same old, same old
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