Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-09-02
Books mentioned on Productivity Without Limits - Chris Sparks - #099
Chris Sparks is a productivity coach, founder of The Forcing Function and a Former Top 20 Worldwide Online Poker Player. What happens when a world famous productivity coach compiles the most effective tasks he's discovered for developing personal productivity into an E-Book?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a popular self-help and productivity book that argues for the value of cultivating intense, distraction-free focus to master demanding tasks and create high-value output.
Discussed“I'm like, oh, I you read you read the five chapters of Cal Newport's Deep Work, but only implemented one of them. Like, what what what a waste.”
Where to get it
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme government surveillance, historical negationism, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“I read uh so sacrilege, I know, but I only read 1984 last year. Um and that book, some of the conclusions that I drew from that piss all over so many non-fiction like productivity books.”
Where to get it
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a popular self-improvement guide that offers actionable strategies for building positive routines and breaking negative ones through small, incremental changes.
Recommended“James Clear, Atomic Habits, probably probably the best book that I've read this year um in terms of non-fiction.”
Where to get it
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Off the Clock
Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam is a time management guide that explores how successful people approach their daily schedules and priorities.
Recommended“One of the things to interject there, one of the things that Laura Vanderkam talked about, I don't know whether you're familiar with Laura's work, Off the Clock. So, she's a time management expert, highly recommend.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Recently, we had Scott Young, author of Ultralearning on.”
“Uh last year I had Pete as he brown, author of Make It Stick.”
“James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, has been on earlier this year.”