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Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
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Dan Bittner
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Thatcher Wine
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Reclaim your attention, productivity, and happiness with this inspirational book which teaches the importance of keeping your focus to one familiar task at a time.
Neurological research definitively and repeatedly concludes that there is a bottleneck in our cognitive function - when we do more than one thing at a time, we become less efficient and more error‑prone. Our systems get overloaded and we crash. In fact, we are actually wired to monotask - to give dedicated focus to one task at a time.
Whether you call it monotasking, mindfulness, being present, or any other name, the goal is the same: Give your focus to one thing at a time and do it with your all. When we do things with our full focus, completely tuning our bodies and our brains in to one activity - like reading a book, listening to someone in a conversation, or paying attention to our surroundings while we go for a walk - amazing things can happen.
Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, The Twelve Monotasks breaks down 12 everyday activities to strengthen our “monotasking” muscle so that we can rebuild and expand our attention spans. When we focus on what we are doing, where we are and who we are with, we can rediscover our ability to enjoy life, connect with others, and succeed in all that we do. And in the end, it makes us happier, more productive, and more present - in all aspects of our lives.
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Critic reviews
“Relinquishing our engagement with multiple goals and dedicating our attention to a specific task rewards us with increased productivity and a markedly reduced sense of stress. By enhancing our monotasking skills we can more deeply experience and benefit from the most fundamental activities of our lives. Thatcher Wine gifts us with the tools to rein in our distractibility, allowing us to more richly participate in all that we do.” (David Perlmutter, MD, author of Grain Brain and Brain Wash)
“The Twelve Monotasks shows how we're not fully living up to our potential when we multitask and offers practical steps for what we can do about it. Offering key learnings around important daily activities including sleeping, eating, and walking, Thatcher Wine explains the deep and profound need for monotasking and how mastering it can lead to a more present, healthier, and happier you.” (Frank Lipman, MD, author of Better Sleep, Better You)
“Captivating, informative, and beautifully written, The Twelve Monotasks is a potential game changer for how we can give more of our attention to the things that really do matter. Thatcher’s entrepreneurial and personal experience makes him the perfect guide to monotasking. It’s a book worth your time.” (Nate Berkus, author of The Things That Matter)
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great book!!!
- By DIY manAmazon Customer on 01-09-18
By: Martin Meadows
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Your Difference Is Your Strength
- A Guide to Accepting Yourself -- for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
- By: Kris Ferraro
- Narrated by: Kris Ferraro
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way.
By: Kris Ferraro
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The Uncertainty Solution
- How to Invest with Confidence in the Face of the Unknown
- By: John M. Jennings
- Narrated by: Eric Burgher
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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This is not a typical investment book. It is an experiential guide on cultivating the mindset and behavior necessary to weather inherently uncertain and unpredictable markets. It doesn’t just tell you how to invest but how to think better about investing. Referencing studies on psychology, decision making, and investment behavior, Jennings provides a no-nonsense analysis of the financial markets and a road map to navigating its inevitable twists and turns.
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Incredibly good for individual investors, like a bible
- By Zhanchen G. on 08-18-24
By: John M. Jennings
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How to Be an Adult in Love
- Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
- By: David Richo
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In this audiobook, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships - one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: Attention to the present moment; observing, listening, and noticing all the feelings at play in our relationships.
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The hardcopy version would be better
- By RH on 10-29-16
By: David Richo
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The Man Who Planted Trees
- By: Jean Giono
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 27 mins
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In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.
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Short but sweet
- By Janet M. on 03-19-22
By: Jean Giono
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The Archer
- By: Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa - translator
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 49 mins
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In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfill, that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living.
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Not The Alchemist
- By Tiffany Word on 11-13-20
By: Paulo Coelho, and others
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Let Them Be Kids
- Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need
- By: Jessica Smartt
- Narrated by: Amanda Sanfilippo
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Former English teacher and homeschooling mother of three, Jessica Smartt felt the weight of helping prepare her kids for life, especially with all the outside pressures and influence of the world. She struggled with how she could raise her children with a sense of adventure, self-confidence, manners, faith, and the ability to utilize technology wisely. Let Them Be Kids is Jessica's offering of grace and confidence to moms, giving them practical ideas to meet these challenges.
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heavy breathing
- By Deborah Massey on 03-09-23
By: Jessica Smartt
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The Science of Self-Discipline
- The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals
- By: Peter Hollins
- Narrated by: Peter Hollins
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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Your best intentions are not enough. Learn how to scientifically engineer a disciplined existence, become relentless, and never give up. Whatever you want in your life, self-discipline is the missing piece. Goals will remain dreams if you make the mistake of relying on motivation and your best drawn plans. The Science of Self-Discipline is a deep look into what allows us to resist our worst impulses and simply execute, achieve, produce, and focus. Every principle is scientifically-driven and dissected to as be actionable and helpful as possible. You'll learn how top performers consistently exercise self-discipline, as well as what drives us on an instinctual, psychological level to act.
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Same old tired rehash of studies and common sense
- By A. Molnar on 07-12-18
By: Peter Hollins
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The Communication Book
- 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day
- By: Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler, Jenny Piening - Translated by, and others
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler have tested the forty-four most important communication theories and distilled them in book form....
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Misinformation
- By amazonreviewer on 01-11-25
By: Mikael Krogerus, and others
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist
- Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
- By: Ozan Varol
- Narrated by: Ozan Varol
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of technology. But it's not. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process—a way to imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. It's the same thought process that enabled Neil Armstrong to take his giant leap for mankind, that allows spacecraft to travel millions of miles through outer space and land on a precise spot, and that brings us closer to colonizing other planets.
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Incrementally new perspectives on rehashed themes
- By James S. on 06-13-20
By: Ozan Varol
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Organize Tomorrow Today
- 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life
- By: Jason Selk, Tom Bartow, Matthew Rudy
- Narrated by: Christian Steiner
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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In Organize Tomorrow Today (OTT), two of the top minds in human performance come together to deliver the pathway to extreme success: Doing more is not the answer, and Selk and Bartow walk you through how to achieve more by doing less. Together, Selk and Bartow reveal the secrets of how both elite athletes and business leaders climb to the top. Selk and Bartow offer the eight fundamentals of doing what is most important. OTT will show you the performance gains that athletes, executives, and salespeople spend tens of thousands of dollars to achieve.
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if you're going to get one self-improvement book..
- By Corey on 01-02-17
By: Jason Selk, and others
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The Organized Mind
- Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
- By: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel - and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.
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Finally a book about productivity that delivers!
- By Oliver Nielsen on 09-16-14
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The Science of Self-Learning
- How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education
- By: Peter Hollins
- Narrated by: Gregory Allen Siders
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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How to learn effectively when you have to be both the teacher and student. Work smarter and save yourself countless hours. Self-learning is not just about performing better in the classroom or the office. It’s about being able to aim your life in whatever direction you choose and conquering the obstacles in front of you.
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Good Guide for Self-Learners
- By A. Yoshida on 06-11-19
By: Peter Hollins
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The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly
- Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
- By: Margareta Magnusson
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the Swedish tradition of döstädning, or “death cleaning”—clearing out your unnecessary belongings so others don’t have to do it for you. Now, unburdened by (literal and emotional) baggage, Magnusson is able to focus on what makes each day worth living. In her new book she reveals her discoveries about aging—some difficult to accept, many rather wondrous.
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Not up to the quality of Swedish death cleaning
- By Chelsea Girl on 01-21-23
Potential life changing book!
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Wonderful book!
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Meh.
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