So the noteworthy bits, some commentary on them, some questions, there might be questions that I felt were not answered in the book and questionsthat I felt could take the conversation further if we were going to apply the principles in the book. Don't worry if you haven't read them, I'll always give context to them.Īnd then some of the questions I have as well will be in the analysis. I might pull in insights from other books. That's what I'm going to call the book analysis. I've been very selective because as much as I have tons of notes for myself, and even though I've selected these ones for myself, I believe they'll also be useful to you.Ĩ0 20 books are going to break down overall impression first, and then we'll get into my thoughts-the things that stood out for me.
Any well-written well-researched book will offer a lot of different insights to different people.īut what I will share are what my insights were and the things that jumped out to me in the book. My suspicion is if you were to read the book, you might get other ideas from the book. These are insights that stood out for me. We'll start off with an overall impression-what I felt about the book, give you a bit of a summary of the book.Īnd then I'll go into insights that stood out for me. So the book breakdowns will play out this way. And because it is our very first 80 20 book breakdown, I’m going to be letting you know what the format of these book breakdowns are going to be using Effortless as our very first one. How 80-20 Book Breakdowns will workĮffortless is a very interesting book. So without further ado, let's get into it. And it contains a lot of insights and ideas that I want to share as we go through this 80 20 book breakdown. I want to talk about his most recent work.Įssentialism came out in 2014, his most recent work Effortless with the subtitle: make it easier to do what matters most, came out in April of 2021. McKeown wrote a very influential book in Essentialism, but we're not talking about Essentialism today. A lot of the ideas in Essentialism draw on 80 20, the concept of factor sparsity and how few things matter, but they matter a lot. And what he does and Effortless is that he builds on the ideas he put forward in essential wisdom.Įssentialism is a very 80 20 book. Now, if you don't know who Greg McKeown is, Greg McKeown is the author of the wildly successful book of 2014 Essentialism. On this episode, we're going to be doing a book breakdown of Greg McKeown's new work Effortless. So with that, here we go with part one of 80 20 productivity book breakdown of Greg McKeown's Effortless, make it easier to do what matters most. Or if you want, you can listen to part one and two back to Beth, but remember what matters more than how much knowledge you take in is how much knowledge you use. Think about it, digest it, and then come back and listen to part two.
So feel free to listen to this one, go take action on it. So what you're going to listen to next is the first part. So what I've decided to do is present this in two parts. But it ended up going well over an hour, there was just so much to unpack in the selected bits that I was going to talk about on the podcast. When I first recorded this podcast episode, I was intending for it to be just about half an hour long. And on this episode, we're breaking down Greg McKeown's new book, Effortless, make it easier to do what matters most. Welcome to the first 80 20 productivity book breakdown. Now here's your host author, speaker and productivity nerd, Anthony Sanni.
The show dedicated to helping you do more by doing less so that you can have more time and energy to enjoy life to the fullest. Most things don't matter, but the few that matter, matter a lot, welcome to 80 20 productivity. Note: This transcript has been slightly modified from the exact spoken word to enhance comprehension and readability. The magic ingredient that makes routines and habits more effortless (13:18)ĭiscover what is even better than streamlining and empowering steps in a process (22:36)Įfficiency and effectiveness quote is attributed to Peter Drucker. Why play and work should go together (09:37) It is not enough to be efficient, but to be efficient at the right things (07:21) Some of the main points (TVF Timestamps): In it I explore key ideas and insights with an aim to making them real and practical tools for helping you do more by doing less. This episode is part 1 of 2 episodes of a deep dive into select ideas and insights from Greg McKeown's book-Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters.