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Books like Make Time
The best books like Make Time are Deep Work, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, and Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is about time management, focus, habits. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
Shares focus and habits with Make Time.
Read the summary → - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal · Self-help
Indistractable is Nir Eyal's argument that distraction is not a technology problem — it's a psychology problem.
Shares focus and distraction with Make Time.
Read the summary → - Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown · Self-help
Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.
Shares focus and intentional living with Make Time.
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- The 4-Hour Workweek
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Timothy Ferriss · Self-help
The 4-Hour Workweek is Timothy Ferriss's argument that the standard model of working forty-plus hours a week until retirement is a bad deal, and that a better one is available right now for anyone willing to rethink how they work, earn, and live.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman · Self-help
Four Thousand Weeks is Oliver Burkeman's philosophical attack on the entire project of time management as it is usually practiced.
Shares time management and intentional living with Make Time.
Read the summary → - Eat That Frog!
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Brian Tracy · Self-help
Eat That Frog!
Shares time management and focus with Make Time.
Read the summary → - Hyperfocus
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Chris Bailey · Self-help
Hyperfocus is Chris Bailey's second book, narrowing in on the attention piece of his earlier productivity triad.
Shares focus and distraction with Make Time.
Read the summary → - The One Thing
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Gary Keller and Jay Papasan · Self-help
The One Thing is Gary Keller's argument that extraordinary results come not from doing more things but from doing fewer things better — specifically, from identifying the single most important thing at any given time and doing that before anything else.
Shares time management and focus with Make Time.
Read the summary → - The Power of Less
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Leo Babauta · Self-help
Leo Babauta's central argument is that doing less, not more, is the path to meaningful accomplishment.
Shares focus and habits with Make Time.
Read the summary → - The Distracted Mind
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Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen · Science
The Distracted Mind brings together two distinct research traditions — cognitive neuroscience and psychology of technology — to explain why modern humans find sustained attention so difficult and what can be done about it.
Shares focus and distraction with Make Time.
Read the summary → - Atomic Habits
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James Clear · Self-help
Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - Better Than Before
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Gretchen Rubin · Self-help
Better Than Before is Gretchen Rubin's synthesis of years of research and personal experimentation on habits.
Both dig into habits.
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Books like Make Time: quick answers
What are the best books like Make Time?
The best books like Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are Deep Work by Cal Newport, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Make Time, such as time management, focus, habits.
What should I read after Make Time?
A natural next read after Make Time is Deep Work by Cal Newport. Shares focus and habits with Make Time. Other strong choices are Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
What books are similar to Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky?
Make Time centers on time management, focus, habits. Books with a similar feel include Deep Work by Cal Newport, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
