{"id":993,"date":"2022-08-18T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=993"},"modified":"2022-08-18T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:56:56","slug":"essentialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/essentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown\/dp\/0753555166\">book<\/a> about &#8220;simplifying&#8221; your life, removing what is not necessary and focus in the important. These are nice words but actually very difficult to accomplish nowadays. I have read several book that are quite related to this subject, like &#8220;indistractable&#8221;, &#8220;drive&#8221;,&#8221;deep work&#8221;, &#8220;flow&#8221;, &#8220;atomic habits&#8221;, etc. Focus in &#8220;less is better&#8221;. If you dont put a limit, somebody will do it for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me,  I am struggling in the &#8220;Tech&#8221; side. I want to learn so many things that at the end of the day\/week\/months\/years I notice I haven&#8217;t reached anywhere. I have hundreds of tabs open in my browser with things I want to read &#8220;soon&#8221;.  Something similar happens with recipes, I have so many pieces of magazines, videos and pics in my phone, that I feel overwhelmed. At least I am focus in my climbing (getting fitter), baking (bread!)\/cooking  and reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author explains the process to become an Essentialist as three phases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create space. It is good to be bored. Read old books. Meaning.<\/li><li>Play: Sir Ken Robinson<\/li><li>Sleep: Protect the most important asset, you!<\/li><li>Select: Hell yeah or no. Trade-offs. Good to Great (book).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Eliminate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>clarify: cleanup the wardrobe<\/li><li>dare: say &#8220;no&#8221;<\/li><li>uncommit: sunk cost, endowment effect, fear of missing out<\/li><li>edit: options, condense<\/li><li>limit: you can pay a price for setting boundaries BUT boundaries are freedom!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Execute:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Buffer: add 50% in your planning. extreme preparation<\/li><li>Substract<\/li><li>Progress: repeat, repeat<\/li><li>flow: create routines<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the typical book that I put in my stack of good reads, to read again at some point so I can refresh concepts because I forget things. Even after finishing it a couple of days ago, I got the feeling that I have forgotten most of it. And in this case, I gave away the book so I am even struggling to get my notes\/thoughts here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book about &#8220;simplifying&#8221; your life, removing what is not necessary and focus in the important. These are nice words but actually very difficult to accomplish nowadays. I have read several book that are quite related to this subject, like &#8220;indistractable&#8221;, &#8220;drive&#8221;,&#8221;deep work&#8221;, &#8220;flow&#8221;, &#8220;atomic habits&#8221;, etc. Focus in &#8220;less is better&#8221;. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/essentialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essentialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}