Theyre the authors of the New York Times. 4) Reflect on the daywith a few simple notes. Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are writers and designers who help people make time for what matters at the office and in everyday life. 3) Build energy throughout the dayto stay in control of your time and attention. 2) Act and be laser-focusedon that highlight. In fact, they share 87 bite-size tactics to Optimize. Make Time is 4 steps repeated daily: 1) Select a single highlightaround which to prioritize your day. (To put it in perspective, their “Time Dork” recommended reading list includes some of my all-time favorites we’ve featured: Deep Work by Cal Newport, Getting Things Done by David Allen, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Mindset by Carol Dweck, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and Irresistible by Adam Alter.) Image cred: Step 1: Highlight The first step is to select a highlight.

It’s a GREAT book that echoes a ton of what we talk about all the time. The Four-Step Framework That Makes Time Inspired by a combination of their experience with design sprints, their own experiments, and reader feedback, Knapp and Zeratsky created a four-step framework that can make time if repeated daily. This book is all about resetting our culture’s default settings by stepping off of what they call “the Busy Bandwagon” while jumping out of “Infinity Pools” of distraction to optimize our energy, focus, and time. I got it on my friend Pilar Gerasimo’s rec. While there, they worked with a ton of startups in which Google invested (including Uber, Slack and 23andMe) on a project-development system they created called “Sprint.” (They wrote a book on that as well. Jake had worked on Gmail and JZ on YouTube before they connected at Google Ventures. Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are obsessed with the idea of redesigning time. Seriously.) The experience was not unlike another super-fun book we recently featured: Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule. And ran up to the office to start reading it. Well, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (JZ) have the system to help you, as per the sub-title of their great book: “Focus on What Matters Every Day.’Īlexandra got this book.

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