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Four Thousand Weeks
- Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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Nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place, thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our 4,000 weeks. Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem.
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If I could read only one book for the rest of my life…
- De Murdho Savila en 10-19-21
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
Quite profound and life-changing
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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Tribes
- We Need You to Lead Us
- De: Seth Godin
- Narrado por: Seth Godin
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make our world work, and always have. The new opportunity is that it's easier than ever to find, organize, and lead a tribe. The Web has enabled an explosion of all kinds of tribes - and created shortage of people to lead them. This is the growth industry of our time. Tribes will help you understand exactly what's at stake, and why YOU can and should lead a tribe of your own.
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Get to the point!!!
- De Katie en 02-26-09
- Tribes
- We Need You to Lead Us
- De: Seth Godin
- Narrado por: Seth Godin
Great for getting you in the right mindset
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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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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Should be required reading
- De Blue Zion en 12-22-18
- Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Much more than a natural history overview
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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The Productive Academic Writer
- An Easy Guide to Low-Stress Prolific Writing
- De: Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan
- Narrado por: Jack Nolan
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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Having played the role of a student, postdoc, researcher, research faculty member, author, reviewer, and editor, Kasthurirangan "Rangan" Gopalakrishnan, PhD, fully understands and empathizes with the struggles and pleasures of academic work. In this book, his goal is to assist you to do what you are already doing more effectively and efficiently with minimal stress and possibly to identify and eliminate those activities and habits that interfere with your academic writing productivity.
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not original but good summary of effective ways
- De Hakuna Matata en 06-06-16
- The Productive Academic Writer
- An Easy Guide to Low-Stress Prolific Writing
- De: Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan
- Narrado por: Jack Nolan
Good brief overview of techniques
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
- How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business
- De: Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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Take your business to the next level - for the win. Millions flock to their computers, consoles, mobile phones, tablets, and social networks each day to play World of Warcraft, Farmville, Scrabble, and countless other games, generating billions in sales each year. The careful and skillful construction of these games is built on decades of research into human motivation and psychology: A well-designed game goes right to the motivational heart of the human psyche.
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Repetitive
- De Jason en 04-27-15
- For the Win
- How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business
- De: Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
An O.K. Introduction to Gamification
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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