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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown, 2021
In one paragraph
Greg McKeown's follow-up to Essentialism, focusing on making the execution of essential activities easier. Provides strategies for achieving better results with less effort by designing systems, automating processes, and removing unnecessary friction from important work.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Focus & Essentialism
Focus & Essentialism
Continuous Improvement & Feedback Loops
Key insights
McKeown's own correction to Essentialism: having cut to the essential, people still burned out, so the question becomes how to make the remainder lighter.
If something feels hard, the assumption should be that there is an easier path, not that you need more discipline.
Residual results: build something once that keeps producing without you, rather than repeating effort at a constant rate.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Making important work unnecessarily difficult through poor design
Adding complexity instead of removing it when problems arise
Relying on willpower instead of environmental design
Pushing through resistance instead of finding easier paths
Optimizing effort instead of eliminating unnecessary work
The same idea, argued differently
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The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Greg McKeown
- Published
- 2021
- Category
- Business
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