Books like The Productivity Project

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Hyperfocus

Chris Bailey · Self-help

Hyperfocus is Chris Bailey's second book, narrowing in on the attention piece of his earlier productivity triad.

Shares productivity and attention with The Productivity Project.

02

Deep Work

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 productivity and attention with The Productivity Project.

03

Make Time

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky · Self-help

Make Time is a practical guide from two former Google Ventures designers who grew frustrated watching their own attention get swallowed by the default rhythms of the modern workday.

Both dig into time management.

04

Atomic Habits

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.

A kindred self-help read.

05

Smarter Faster Better

Charles Duhigg · Self-help

Smarter Faster Better is Duhigg's follow-up to The Power of Habit, turning from habitual behavior to the science of productive decision-making and sustained motivation.

Both dig into productivity.

06

Eat That Frog!

Brian Tracy · Self-help

Eat That Frog!

Shares productivity and time management with The Productivity Project.

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First Things First

Stephen R. Covey · Self-help

First Things First is Stephen Covey's full-length development of the time management principles he introduced in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, particularly the distinction between urgency and importance.

Shares productivity and time management with The Productivity Project.

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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 productivity and time management with The Productivity Project.

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The One Thing

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 productivity and time management with The Productivity Project.

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The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker · Business

The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.

Shares productivity and time management with The Productivity Project.

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Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport · Self-help

Digital Minimalism is Cal Newport's argument that most people's relationship with smartphones and social media is not freely chosen but engineered — the product of business models that monetize attention and design interfaces for compulsion rather than value.

Both dig into attention.

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Do Less, Get More

Shaa Wasmund · Self-help

Do Less, Get More is Shaa Wasmund's argument that most people's productivity problem is not a shortage of effort or time but an excess of wrong activity.

Both dig into productivity.