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    Summary of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Busy Readers Conversation Starters
    Summary of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Busy Readers Conversation Starters
    Summary of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Busy Readers Conversation Starters
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    Summary of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Busy Readers Conversation Starters

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    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown: Busy Readers Conversation Starters


    The way of the Essentialist is to do "less but better." Greg McKeown advises readers to constantly pause and ask whether one is investing one’s time in the right activities. Learning to know the difference between the trivial and the vital is an important skill of the Essentialist. Essentialism is not about doing more things but doing the right things. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential. How does one become an Essentialist?
    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is an instant New York Times bestseller. It is written by McKeown who co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller Multipliers.


    A Brief Look Inside:


    EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER


    than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,


    and the characters and its world still live on.


    Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to


    bring us beneath the surface of the page


    and invite us into the world that lives on.


    These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:


    Foster a deeper understanding of the book


    Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups


    Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately


    Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before


    Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent companion resource of the original book, enhancing your experience. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the original book, please do before purchasing these unofficial Conversation Starters.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBH
    Release dateFeb 21, 2019
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      Summary of Essentialism - Paul Mani

      Introducing Essentialism

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      ssentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a book written by Greg McKeown. The book serves as a guide for people to do the necessary things and drop the unessential. It advocates doing less but better. Strategies are offered to enable readers to shift from having a non-essentialist mindset to becoming an Essentialist.

      The author starts the book with a story of Sam Elliot whose work performance suffered because he was doing too many things at the same time. He consulted a mentor who told him to focus only on the essential things, which he did, and his performance rating shot up. In this example is the basic value proposition of Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter, McKeown writes. He asks the reader if he too has been trying to accomplish many things without getting real results. Still, in the same first chapter, McKeown tells another story, that of Dieter Rams who was the lead designer at Braun, the company that made turntables. Dieter made a new design for the turntable that was radically different from the traditional design, which made company members fear that they might go bankrupt. Dieter's design, however, became popular and is now imitated by other designers. McKeown says Dieter's design principle is explained in the German words Weniger aber besser. In English, it means less but better. This, according to McKeown, is the way of the Essentialist. He or she is one who does a relentless pursuit of less but better. This pursuit is done in a disciplined way. He advises readers to constantly pause and ask whether one is investing one’s time in the right activities. Learning to know

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