Essentialism by Greg McKeown advocates for focusing on what truly matters by eliminating non-essential tasks and commitments. While its core message of intentional simplicity is valuable, I found the book redundant, as it often reiterates the same points without adding sufficient new insights.
Long story short, “What is essential?” Eliminate everything else.
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• “The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang
• Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.
• The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively,
• If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
• “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” — Pablo Picasso
• “Each night, when i go to sleep, i die. and the next morning, when i wake up, i am reborn.” -Mahatma Gandhi
• The best asset we have for making a contribution to the world is ourselves. If we underinvest in ourselves, and by that I mean our minds, our bodies, and our spirits, we damage the very tool we need to make our highest contribution.
• “If the answer isn’t a definite yes then it should be a no.”
• “To attain knowledge add things every day. To attain wisdom subtract things every day.” -Lao-tzu
• “In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” -Lao Tzu
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