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Nikolaj

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Quite profound and life-changing

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Revisado: 10-20-22

From the title, one could assume that this is a book hammering the message that you only have limited time, and therefore need to make the most of it by cramming as much into those four thousand weeks as possible. It's the opposite of that, and it's much more than that.

It's rather a psychology and philosophy book than it is a book about being productive - although being more productive was the initial goal of the author and a subject that he has extensive knowledge about. It's the book you need to read if you were in fact looking for yet another book on becoming more productive.

Probably the biggest insight for me was the realization that keeping busy with too many things is just a way of avoiding the discomfort of choosing. And inevitably, we have to choose because there are infinitely more options and things we want to do than what is possible. It will always be like this no matter how much we accomplish. By keeping options open and cramming our calendars/to-do lists, we distract and fool ourselves into thinking we can do it all. When in truth we should be owning up to the hard choices that come with not being able to do it all - and accepting the consequences of this. It's discomforting, but embracing it makes it less so. Doing more and working harder is not necessarily the right or brave thing to do - often choosing and accepting your limitations is the hard and meaningful thing you're avoiding by keeping "busy" as the easy way out.

I rarely think this of books, but this is one that I could picture myself listening to again in the future. It deals with a slightly counter-intuitive philosophy of life that takes time to fully process. I would likely get more out of it with a second listen. I haven't yet decided if I agree with all of it, but that doesn't matter, because the important thing is that it kickstarts essential thought processes. It also has some concrete "techniques" if you will, but not the kind you should quickly skim through to "optimize" your productivity. The reasoning behind it all is the real takeaway, and that you have to read the full chapters to grasp.

Thank you for writing the book. Not sure if you (Oliver) will ever read this review, because, as you know, it's not possible to read it all, so I don't mind if you make the brave choice to pass on this *wink *wink

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Great for getting you in the right mindset

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Revisado: 05-03-20

It’s not the most practical or organized book on becoming an influencer/leader or whatever you want to call it, but that’s not what it’s trying to do either. It’s really great at instilling the right mindset, which is necessary for getting started, overcoming adversity and truly creating something that stands out. I thought I had an appropriate mindset before listening to it, but the book gave me much more than I hoped for. Now I have a clearer vision of my own internal stop-blocks for leadership progress and how to overcome them. It’s the best book I’ve come across in that regard.

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Much more than a natural history overview

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Revisado: 08-12-18

I expected a biological and historical overview of human evolution, but received an extremely thought-provoking walkthrough of everything from politics and religion, to psychology, and hard science.

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Good brief overview of techniques

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Revisado: 07-16-17

For what it is - a brief overview of issues and techniques - it does a great job of making you aware.

The narration is, at times, a little chopped up and sometimes doesn't have a natural flow to it, but it's not dreadful.

I recommend this to anyone wondering if they have a good overview of the issues and techniques on this topic. It offers good referrals as well if you wish to dive deeper on a topic.

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For the Win Audiolibro Por Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter arte de portada

An O.K. Introduction to Gamification

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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-06-16

The book covers points, badges, and leaderboards and attempts to go a beyond these, but only provides quite limited guidelines for this. The advice is about as vague as: analyze user data, understand your customers through customer personas (or avatars), use a broad spectrum of rewards, incorporate something fun, clarify desired outcome behaviors, understand your business goals, use variation, etc. It also warns against mindless use of basic "point-ification", which is all appropriate to mention, but I didn't come across any profound insights. So the book works fine as an introduction to the field, but is only that.

The narration is rather poor. The speech is fast and inanimate, and sounds like someone trying to quickly plough through the material instead of delivering a genuine account.

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