@RobinSharma @CrownPublishing @PRHAudio @audible_com 19. "#SlowProductivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by #CalNewport. @Georgetown @NewYorker @portfoliobooks @PRHAudio @audible_com #52books2024

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#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Bet on yourself” proposition for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Write after the kids go to bed. • Reduce your salary. • Announce a schedule. • Attract an investor.

#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Improve your taste” proposition for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Become a cinephile. • Start your own inklings. • Buy a fifty-dollar notebook.

#CalNewport’s propositions for implementing his #ObsessOverQuality principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Improve your taste. • Bet on yourself.

#CalNewport’s #ObsessOverQuality principle: ”Obsess over the quality of what you produce, even if this means missing opportunities in the short term. Leverage the value of these results to gain more and more freedom in your efforts over the long term.”

#CalNewport’s suggestions for his “Work poetically” proposition for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Match your space to your work. • Strange is better than stylish. • Rituals should be striking.

#CalNewport’s strategies for implementing his “small seasonality” philosophy for his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • No-Meeting Mondays • See a matinee once a month. • Schedule “rest projects”. • Work in cycles.

#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Embrace seasonality” proposition for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Schedule slow seasons. • Define a shorter work year.

#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Take longer” proposition for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Make a five-year plan. • Double your project timelines. • Simplify your workday. • Forgive yourself.

#CalNewport’s propositions for implementing his #WorkAtANaturalPace principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Take longer. • Embrace seasonality. • Work poetically.

#CalNewport’s #WorkAtANaturalPace principle: “Don’t rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in settings conducive to brilliance.”

#CalNewport’s three-step strategy for implementing a simulated pull system, for his “Pull instead of Push” proposition for implementing his #DoFewerThings principle, from #SlowProductivity: 1. holding “tank” and “active” lists 2. intake procedure 3. list-cleaning

#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Contain the Small” proposition for implementing his #DoFewerThings principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Put tasks on autopilot. • Synchronise. • Make other people work more. • Avoid task engines. • Spend money.

#CalNewport’s strategies for his “Limit the Big” proposition for implementing his #DoFewerThings principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Limit missions. • Limit projects. • Limit daily goals.

#CalNewport’s propositions for implementing his #DoFewerThings principle, from #SlowProductivity: • Limit the Big. • Contain the Small. • Pull instead of Push.