10 Top Lessons From the Book “Essentialism”
📗Book Review
📗Book Review
1. What essentialism is (and what it isn’t)
✅It is about applying the principles of ‘less but better’ to how we live our lives now and in the future.
❌Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done.
Here are some Hacks:
✅It is about applying the principles of ‘less but better’ to how we live our lives now and in the future.
❌Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done.
Here are some Hacks:
2. Design space in your life to escape
Picasso said: “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
🟢We need space to escape in order to discern the essential few from the trivial many.
In our time-starved era we don’t get that space by default—only by design.
Picasso said: “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
🟢We need space to escape in order to discern the essential few from the trivial many.
In our time-starved era we don’t get that space by default—only by design.
3. Spend time exploring
Essentialists spend as much time as possible exploring, listening, debating, questioning, and thinking. But their exploration is not an end in itself.
👉The purpose of the exploration is to discern the vital few from the trivial many.
Essentialists spend as much time as possible exploring, listening, debating, questioning, and thinking. But their exploration is not an end in itself.
👉The purpose of the exploration is to discern the vital few from the trivial many.
4. Realize you have a choice
❌We have lost our ability to filter what is important and what isn’t.
Psychologists call this ‘decision fatigue’: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.
❌We have lost our ability to filter what is important and what isn’t.
Psychologists call this ‘decision fatigue’: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.
5. Define your purpose
🟢Inspirational + Concrete = Essential Intent (1 decision that eliminates rest)
Creating an essential intent is hard. It takes courage insight and foresight to see which activities and efforts will add up to your single highest point of contribution
🟢Inspirational + Concrete = Essential Intent (1 decision that eliminates rest)
Creating an essential intent is hard. It takes courage insight and foresight to see which activities and efforts will add up to your single highest point of contribution
6. Focus on the vital few
✅Stephen Covey Said: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.
✅Stephen Covey Said: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities.
7. Move from motion sickness to momentum
✅Instead of making just a millimeter of progress in a million directions begin to generate tremendous momentum towards accomplishing the things that is truly vital.
✅Instead of making just a millimeter of progress in a million directions begin to generate tremendous momentum towards accomplishing the things that is truly vital.
8. Be the CEO — Chief Editing Officer
🔴Becoming an Essentialist means:
- making cutting
- condensing
- correcting
a natural part of our daily routin
(making editing a natural cadence in our lives)
🔴Becoming an Essentialist means:
- making cutting
- condensing
- correcting
a natural part of our daily routin
(making editing a natural cadence in our lives)
9. Say “NO”
❌Anytime you fail to say ‘no’ to a nonessential, you are really saying yes by default.
Everyone is selling something. Simply being aware of what is being sold allows us to be more deliberate in deciding whether we want to buy it.
❌Anytime you fail to say ‘no’ to a nonessential, you are really saying yes by default.
Everyone is selling something. Simply being aware of what is being sold allows us to be more deliberate in deciding whether we want to buy it.
10. Sleep
Even a brief period of deep sleep, in other words, helps us make the kinds of new connections that allow us to better explore our world.
✅In a nutshell, sleep is what allows us to operate at our highest level of contribution so that we can achieve more, in less time
Even a brief period of deep sleep, in other words, helps us make the kinds of new connections that allow us to better explore our world.
✅In a nutshell, sleep is what allows us to operate at our highest level of contribution so that we can achieve more, in less time
Wrap Up:
1. Routine: Heal with the flow
2. Track: Document your journey
3. Willpower: Fight through events
Life changes with time. Nothing ever remains same.
Master your mind. Master your life.
Start reading 100 Mental Models:👇
[Your life will change]
gumroad.com/a/691639411/Ax…
1. Routine: Heal with the flow
2. Track: Document your journey
3. Willpower: Fight through events
Life changes with time. Nothing ever remains same.
Master your mind. Master your life.
Start reading 100 Mental Models:👇
[Your life will change]
gumroad.com/a/691639411/Ax…
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