**What are your most recommended productivity books?**
What are your most recommended productivity books?
I’m slightly obsessed with optimizing my life for maximum outputs.
Out of many areas at work and in life, one of the areas I care a lot about is my productivity.
I’ve read a good number of books on productivity and time management. Frankly, not every single one of them is great.
Today, I want to share with you my most recommended productivity and time management books.
I organize the books into three levels of productivity: Fundamental, Psychology, and Tactic.
Find out about them here: https://deanyeong.com/best-productivity-books/
Also, please share your favorite productivity and time management books in the comment.
None. The best productivity hack is to stop procrastinating by reading about productivity tools and techniques and just get things done 🙃
You will see the opportunities to optimise your time when you’re doing a lot of stuff.
@kylegawley Totally get where you're coming from, but I couldn't agree with it 100%
I believe there is a place for each learning, experimenting, and executing. And the balance is different for everyone.
When I turn to my left, I see a bunch of people who read all day without taking action. When I turn to my right, there is another group of people who make simple mistakes because they don't want to learn from others and prefer to dive in head-down.
Frankly, the reality is subjective.
Personally, what I'm looking for from books and other resources is a non-linear/exponential improvement by tiny changes.
Something that I can't accomplish simply by spending more time and energy. And also something that I'm not smart enough to see.
Anyhow, I would say it's important to actually put in the work to get things done — like 95% of the time.
Those people making mistakes through action will learn a lot more than those who are just reading about it.
Knowing what to do is incredibly different to actually doing it.
I agree that education is important but it has to be applied education and the only valuable learning (IMO) comes from practical application of knowledge.
However, when it comes to productivity learning; I am skeptical – there is a huge industry built around productivity/motivation by people who know how to sell products to procrastinators.
Elon Musk probably isn't reading productivity books every morning and attending Tony Robbins seminars 🙃
All great suggestions above! I second deep work, Scrum (highly recommend!) and also the 4-Hour work week. It's kinda a cheezy book in some ways however there are principals about productivity that are super valueable.
Thanks. Haven't heard of Scrum before this.
Going to add it into my to-read list after seeing it twice it this thread .
Measure What Matter by John Doerr
Scrum by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland
and I have to second
Essentialism (as mentioned by @growwithlogan)
Love the list! Thanks :)
Great site @DeanYeong! Not only did I subscribe to your RSS, I installed an RSS reader and that's something I haven't used in almost a decade!
Thanks @alchemist
In my opinion, the best book about personal productivity is the famous "Getting things done" by David Allen. After this book, I felt so many books are based on this one. I am not reading any more about productiviy.
I like part of the content in Get Things Done. However, I don't think it works for everyone, especially me myself because it's too rigid.
Rework!
+1 for Rework.
I'd also add It Doesn't Need to Be Crazy at Work — haven't read it yet but is in my reading list.
Deep Work
The Pomodoro Technique
Getting Things Done
Flow
Essentialism
The One Thing
The E Myth
Great list!