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    The One Thing

    Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, 2013

    In one paragraph

    Practice ruthless prioritization, use the focusing question, keep it simple. Best read in twenties to thirties, especially when opportunities multiply.

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    Productivity
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    Key insights

    The focusing question: what is the one thing such that by doing it everything else becomes easier or unnecessary?

    Success is sequential, not simultaneous. The domino metaphor is about order rather than effort.

    Repetitive and thin as a book. The question itself is the whole asset and it is genuinely good.

    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.

    What goes wrong

    Trying to focus on multiple "one things" simultaneously

    Success built sequentiallytrue singular focus means one priority at a time

    Confusing busy work with focused work on priorities

    Work is distraction from work or it isn'tconstantly verify you're working on your one thing

    Allowing interruptions to break protected focus time

    Multitasking is liebuild systems that protect focus from all but genuine emergencies

    Choosing easy tasks instead of most important priorities

    Use focusing question to identify highest impact work, not most comfortable work

    Abandoning focus discipline under pressure

    Success demands singleness of purposemaintain focus especially when pressure increases

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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
    Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
    Published
    2013
    Category
    Business
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