

Hopefully, I can come out of it with a more simplified perspective, drilling down to the essentials. This has been on Audible my wish list for a while, and I thought it would be a good time to read while in lockdown. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.” -Audible It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.īy forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique.

It’s about getting only the right things done. The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. “Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Synopsis:
