Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked this book. The premise is pretty straightforward: 1. Pick 1 highlight to focus on per day. 2. Find a way/s to reduce distraction. 3. Maximise energy and recharge the brain with healthy living. 4.…
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed the clear steps Mr Hyatt peesented on how to become more productive. This book reminds me of a similar one on productivity “Curating Your Life” but provides a systematic approach with…
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really like the clarity in how he presents his ideas and expands on others (e.g. Duhigg). The framework is simple enough to remember but admittedly much harder to implement and…
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really enjoyed this book. The author lays out the content clearly and presents his concepts well (with a great step-by-step framework at the end). The real life stories he uses as…
Beyond the Tiger Mom: East-West Parenting for the Global Age by Maya Thiagarajan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I definitely share the author’s view that “knowledge is a prerequisite to imagination”. While I’m all for encouraging creativity and innovation, they can’t arise out of a vacuum. One needs a base of knowledge before making…
In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch My rating: 3 of 5 stars I like how the author links the human blink with a cut in a film, and how the decision on when you time the cut influences the audience’s appreciation of the shot/film. There are a number of good advice and…
Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us about Motivation and Mastery by Kathleen Cushman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked it for the insights into effective learning presented from the students’ point of view. I managed to find new ideas and rediscover nuggets of information that can probably help me frame…
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars After quite a bit of starts and stops I finally completed reading this book and I must say that while it did not enlighten me as much as I had hoped, I did enjoy reading it…
