On Monday 4th November 2024 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport. 

 

In this summary of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

 

Slow Productivity has an Introduction, Part 1, Part 2 and a Conclusion. Part 1 outlines the foundations for slow productivity and then Part 2 goes into detail about the three principles that make us Cal’s approach to slow productivity. 

 

In Part 1 Cal writes about the rise and fall of pseudo-productivity and the issues with that. And then moves on to to talk about an alternative – a slower alternative. His concept of slow productivity is part of the slowness revolution, which includes slow food, slow cities, slow medicine, slow media and more. Slow productivity is defined and the three principles are shared. 

 

In Part 2: Principles there is a chapter devoted to each each principle. Principle 1 is to do fewer things, principle 2 is to work at a natural pace and principle 3 is to obsess over quality. 

 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport.

 

Like the sound of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

 

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

 

 

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