You can buy the book on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, B&N or Indiebound. And I’ll talk to you later.ĭisclosure: some of the following are affiliate links. I’m very tempted to just purchase my own copy. So I’ll include affiliate links and non-affiliate links below to where you can buy this. So as a self-help book, I have to say this really succeeds, and I’m glad that I read it. This is something that I think can really help a person force themselves to decide what their true goals and true missions in their life are. It essentially reaffirmed what I already thought, but at the same time gave some very specific suggestions about how to really embrace essentialism and pursue a life of more focus and a less scattershot approach. The most important skills that you have and the things you most want to do. And in order to do a really good job at something, I think it is important at some point to focus your attentions on the most important things. We can’t all do everything spectacularly. So I think that this is a really good book for anybody and everybody to read, because these days there’s so much emphasis on working hard, doing everything, the whole “DIY, everything has to be done by you, hands-on” culture. The paper assesses these diverse lines of critique. What I’m trying to say is you’re trying to pursue fewer goals in the hope that by focusing on the most important ones, you do a better job at them. Anti-essentialism has criticised a range of targets, from cultural essentialism and biological reductionism to causal explanation and foundationalism, and concerning topics ranging from markets to ‘race’, identity and sexuality. It isn’t even so much about pursuing fewer things, although I think that is part of essentialism, possibly. The Five Big Ideas Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things. The title is Essentialism and the subtitle is The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless. It did help me kind of think more about what is most important to me in my life.

Today, I’m reviewing Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

Essentialism review