🧘‍♂️ Self Help

Author Oliver Burkeman Genres Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 26/03/2026 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Time, attention and life are one and the same. Surrender the illusion of control. Accept that you can’t do everything. You will not experience most of life. 🎨 Impressions TBD. How I Discovered It Probably a Reddit or YouTube recommendation of a productivity “guru”. Who Should Read It? Found on my quest to optimize my time, to get the most out of it and to be as productive as possible. Needless to say that reading it was like a cold shower. When I placed it down after I had finished it, I reached a state of calm never achieved before. If you, like me, and like most people, are pressured to optimize your time, to get the most out of it, and to be as productive as possible every waking moment, then this is the book for you. It will recontextualize your approach to time, time management and life in general. This is the last “time management” book you will read. ...

Author David Allen Genres Self Help, Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 15/07/2024 Update 26/3/26 After reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I have reduced my original review from 5 to 4. Not because this is a bad book, but because it promotes the wrong message that you can master time and get on top of things. In some ways you can, but only if you let go of the illusion of control and if you accept that you can’t do everything. ...

Author Fumio Sasaki Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Minimalism is about the important things Minimalism is personal Minimalism is about true happiness and peace of mind 🎨 Impressions I love this book. It’s probably one of my favourites in the genre. The book talks about: 55+12 rules to more easily become a minimalist; the personal experience of the author and some of the philosopy behind minimalism. So you will find helpful lessons and tips that you can apply to your Minimalist journey paired with decluttering wisdom of the author. ...

Author Daniel Coyle Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 12/01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences There are no prodigies. Only cultivated talent and practice. Practice with intention (slow down, exagerate moves, introduce challenges). Hard Skills (kicking a ball) vs Soft Skills (reading the field). 🎨 Impressions A bit too short. Some chapters could have benefited from a few more words. How I Discovered It I had it in my TODOs for a while, I don’t remember. ...

Author Matthew Walker Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖🖤🖤 Date Finished ~2023 🎨 Impressions I’ll keep the review short and concise. My first impression of the book was good. I thought that anyone striving to improve their sleep quality should have read it. But after reading the article Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors I’m not sure anymore. It seems that in the first chapter alone there are an unproportional number of uncited papers, misleading citacions, wrong percentages and factual errors. The book is now being cited as a source in various papers despite not having the save scientific accuracy of published papers. ...

Author James Clear Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished ~2022 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Habits compound over time and decay if not maintained. Focus on creating a system not a goal. The best way to change habits is to change identity. 🎨 Impressions I love this book. I actually read this book two years ago so this review is not very accurate. What is accurate is the result I achieved after reading this book (like going to the gym regularly, reading more, going outside more, working on my side projects and more…). This book literally changed my approach to improving my habits. It’s also the only one for which I have both the digital and hardcopy versions. ...

Author Johann Hari Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 17/12/2023 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Systemic problems require systemic solutions; individual solutions are only a temporary measure. The best engineers in the world are working to steal your attention and derail your focus. We are in what could be called surveillance capitalism, where we are digitally monitored so that advertisers can understand us and target us with as many ads as possible. 🎨 Impressions I like the book. It doesn’t offer a solution and it doesn’t pretend to offer one because there is no solution. The author even admits that he only partially fixed the problem of spending too much time looking at a screen. I like how it addresses various problems, smartphone related ones, like food quality, dangerous untested substances, and ADHD. ...