M. Maxwell

Look in your library for the PDF

Revisado: 04-11-24

The concept of timeboxing is extremely useful advice, even for me, a productivity geek who has read all the classics of the genre. I have loved putting timeboxing into practice. However, the book is longer than it needs to be to explain timeboxing. At times, Zao-Sanders employs a quasi-religious tone when writing about the benefits of timeboxing, as if it will transform your soul. Timeboxing is a great technique, but I don't need it to transform my soul.

For the reviewer looking for the PDF, if you go to your Audible library on a computer, you will probably see a gray/blue button on the right that says, "View PDF."

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Interesting content, self-important tone

Revisado: 03-01-24

The book contains interesting and important information, and I was inspired to implement some of the exercise ideas. Unfortunately, there's too much information about Gibala's career progression. We hear a lot about his feelings of excitement when he gains prestige and recognition or when he bests another researcher. In spite of that annoyance, the book is worth the 6.5 hours it takes to listen to.

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A rare story of political courage

Revisado: 10-27-23

I was fascinated to peek behind the curtain into this complex and noble character. Quite a contrast with the self serving politicians and media talking heads that now dominate American politics.

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A new classic of happiness literature!

Revisado: 02-13-23

Read this book! It contains a gold mine of priceless information, acquired over decades. The authors explain their data, but also provide inspiring and interesting stories about their participants. In the end, the authors' conclusions match a lot of what humankind has already intuited about happiness, but that doesn't negate the value of this landmark study.

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Not what I needed

Revisado: 09-20-22

I was hoping to read this book and find out if intermittent fasting could improve my weight and health. However, the book turned out to be a weird and annoying anti-Catholic diatribe.

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Best book on productivity I've read in a long time

Revisado: 09-11-18

I'm addicted to books about productivity, but this is the best one I've read in a long time. The advice is realistic and meant to be acted on. It's oriented toward people who are already high achieving but want to take their performance to a higher level. The authors present a menu of techniques and encourage picking just one or two to implement. Like another reviewer, I thought the introduction was too long. Why "sell" people on a book they've already bought? I also agree it might be better if the authors used a wider variety of examples. Their expertise is in training athletes and sales people. However, anyone can take the advice in this book. I've already recommended it to several people who asked me for advice on how to be more confident and overcome career, personal, or psychological hurdles.

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So tedious I could not get through it

Revisado: 03-07-18

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This book has some good ideas in it, but the author seems to use personal observations and anecdotes in place of research and interviews. I learned much more than I wanted about the author, her father, her friends, and her sister Elizabeth. I noticed there are summaries of this book available on Audible, so I would recommend one of those, because you will get the good ideas from it without the excessive personal anecdotes. The author came across as uptight, fearful, and overly controlled, which is not appealing to me, even though I am searching for ways to be more productive.

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Interesting, but long-winded

Revisado: 02-06-18

This book contains some really interesting science-backed tips for improving presence, but is a lot more of a research review rather than a how-to. Honestly, it could have been half as long, and I think most people that are interested in this book will lose interest after reading study after study after study.

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I would rather read Kahneman and Tversky's work

Revisado: 01-07-17

What did you like best about The Undoing Project? What did you like least?

If you are interested in this topic, I would recommend reading Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow. I am very interested in Kahneman and Tversky's work, and I love Michael Lewis as a writer, so I downloaded this audiobook immediately when I heard about it. But for me, it didn't make sense to read what is essentially a summary of Kahneman and Tversky's work, combined with a bibliography of the two researchers. The two men are not portrayed as especially likeable, although their wartime experiences are interesting.

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Very enlightening

Revisado: 08-24-07

Like many Americans, I have wondered a lot over the past few years about the United States' relationships with the nations and other entities of the Middle East. This book shed some important light for me on America's attitudes and actions toward the Middle East, showing that many of the issues we are dealing with today are related to events in our nation's earliest history. Oren doesn't do much to explain Middle Eastern points of view, but that is not the purpose of this book. He does a nice job with the themes of "power, faith, and fantasy," which are unifying without being overbearing. I enjoyed the narration of this book, and even though it is long I plan to listen to it again--it's that informative.

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