Essentialism

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown is truly amazing book. Options and choices day by day getting wider and human being have to choose from essential few rather than trivial many, otherwise one could stuck on a hedonic treadmill and getting nowhere despite spending more time and efforts on non-essentials. Greg illustrated how important it is to say no to trivial many so we could focus on things that matter most. Setting priority has been clarified within this book with few pretty tangible examples. In short you could grasp how you could improve exponentially on things that matter most rather than improve a millimeter on thousand directions.

Yet this book is go beyond essentialism and setting priorities. The author took us on a brief journey on few common fallacies that one might fall pray of. He elaborates on sunk cost fallacy with few example, as well as endowment effect. Decision fatigue also has been described, with few suggestions how we could stay of it. This kind of fallacies could be a real bottleneck in one's life, without even notice them.

This book covers a wide scope, while stay focus on the main objective. There are plenty of well-known figures and books have been quoted, which illustrates the level of research and study performed on the subject. One might miss a lot of crucial points which has been discussed within this book, since the author made sure to stay on the subject. Though it looks like he repeating himself over and over again he is delivering brand new insights.

I have been through the audio book read by the author multiple times and I have enjoyed it immensely. I highly recommend this book to everyone. This is a book you might what to go through more than once.