⭐⭐⭐⭐ Eat That Frog! by Tracy
| Full Title | Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time |
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| Authors | Brian Tracy |
| Year Published | 2006 |
| Date Read | November 03, 2018 |
| Rating | 4/5 stars |
Most of this book can basically be boiled down to “focus on the key activities that you believe provide you the most value.” Each chapter tries to look at this goal in a bit of a different light. Some chapters feel really similar to others, but since the book is so terse and to the point this isn’t really as big a deal as it is in most other self-development books. Taking an approach of reviewing the chapter concept and then skipping to another section if it doesn’t seem promising works well.
Some parts of this book are inconsistent - for example, Chapter 4 says “Many people say that they work better under the pressure of deadlines. Unfortunately, years of research indicate that this is seldom true.” but then Chapter 13 encourages you to “Set deadlines and subdeadlines on every task and activity.” I don’t think this is necessarily a huge issue, because to me the book was mostly about providing new ways of thinking about prioritization. Still, it seems weird to put such
diametrically opposed advice into the same volume.
Overall, I’d recommend reading it. I got enough insights that this is worth the ~hour you will spend on it. A few selections that jumped out to me:
* Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
* zero-based thinking: “If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?”
* You’ll never catch up on everything that you want to do. You have to accept that lower-priority tasks will likely never get done, if you are doing a good job prioritizing.