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By learning something today you might have compounding returns for your entire life. Learning allows you to leverage the best of what others already know. Maybe you won’t read this book but you will at least go back with the most important takeaways from it. You are reading articles and trying to absorb as much as possible from what people already did. One of the best investments you can make in your life is what you are doing right now: learning. Learn What Others Have Already Figured Out “If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you released too late” - Reid Hoffman You can then work on these and start again.īy making failure as easy and as cheap as possible you give yourself a lot of opportunities to improve.Ī first product or a first try should be embarrassing and weird. After your first conversation, you will see which words you didn’t know and what part of the grammar you missed. If you want to learn a new language, don’t wait until your vocabulary is perfect. This lesson is not only for startup and product launches. When it eventually fails or the first issue is detected you can then iterate, slightly improve your product and start again.

It’s way better to launch as soon as possible. You don’t need to launch something perfect. Greg explains to us through a beautiful example the importance of prototyping and being rubbish.

The best way to reduce complexity is to constantly ask yourself the question: what if this could be easy? It triggers your brain to find ways to make your problem simpler or to remove it entirely. “When we remove complexity even the slightest effort can move what matters forward.” And the main way to do this is to reduce complexity. Making work easy means finding ways so that tiny efforts can bring in huge results. “Trying too hard makes it harder to get the result you want” That’s why we get so easily distracted by everything easy like scrolling on social media or watching yet another Netflix show.īut if we manage to make our work easy then it competes with these easy distractions. Our brain is hardwired to find the path of least resistance. Why couldn’t we work easily and still have the results we want? Working hard isn’t efficient. We are used to saying things like “it’s not going to be easy but it‘ll be worth it”. If you want to achieve outstanding results, you have to sweat and blood during the process. “If you keep it simple, less can go wrong” Let’s have a look at the 3 lessons we can take out from this book.

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I especially liked Effortless, as it talks about how to achieve great results with little effort. They are quite short, simply because making them longer wouldn’t serve the purpose of the book. You won’t be bored while reading these books.Īlso, the author follows his philosophy rigorously as he removes all the unnecessary fluff from his books.

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The writing style is very smooth and always full of impactful examples. I would recommend both books, these are great reads. Whereas Effortless is about making life easier by focusing on what matters and getting out of the overcomplication mindset.

Essentialism is about understanding that if you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will. That’s his second book following the massive international success “ Essentialism”.īoth books are complementary.

That’s the premise of the book “ Effortless” by Greg McKeown. Sometimes we make our life harder than it needs to be. “Life doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it.”

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