《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》暢銷書!
獻給被工作與生活壓得喘不過氣的你。
你是否曾發現自己忙到分身乏術?你是否曾覺得工作過度又未能充分發揮實力?你是否曾發現自己專做不重要的事?你是否覺得忙碌不堪卻缺乏生產力?就像你總是在移動,卻從未到達任何地方一樣?
作者以「少,但是更好」做為本書的核心概念,闡述為什麼讓生活化繁為簡如此重要。一旦有「事事都重要」、「有沒有辦法做好所有事」的想法,不管什麼請託、要求都攬在身上,結果就是自己愈繃愈緊,焦頭爛額,反而工作生活兩頭落空。
為了達到「專準主義」(Essentialism)的狀態,作者在書中以三步驟來解釋:第一,精挑:要判斷出目前什麼事情才是首要,先問問自己,「現在所做的事情,是否值得投入?」如果不是,應該要勇敢拒絕。要成為「I choose to」,而不是「I have to」的人。第二,簡化:如何刪除瑣碎無謂的枝節。第三,準確執行:如何移除障礙,讓執行過程減少阻力與痛苦。
本書不是教你如何在最短的時間內完成最多事情,而是教你如何只做正確的事。本書談論的並非時間管理或提升生產力的策略,而是提供一個系統性的方法,教你如何在個人和專業領域中變得更有效率、更有生產力和更有影響力。
最終,你會過忠於自己的生活,而不是別人期待你過的生活。
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.
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Have you ever:
• found yourself stretched too thin?
• simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized?
• felt busy but not productive?
• felt 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 is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. 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 toward the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply 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.
Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.
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