Feel-Good Productivity

Pretty decent productivity book that tries to toe the line between the stressed out productivity crowd and the light positivity mental health focused crowd. 

This book is progressing very slowly for me and it has put me into a serious reading slump. Instead of DNF-ing the book, I decided to flip through the pages quickly, checking the titles, sub-titles and random passages that interested me. It is clear that there is a lot of information, techniques and ideas jam-packed in there. The writing style, perhaps, is not for me, though. As other readers have mentioned, there is too much “padding” and I fully agree. A condensed version of this book might have been more palatable. 

I really enjoyed this book at the beginning. I was connecting with the experiments and works cited in it and highlighting a ton of passages that I thought would be useful in the future. But after the halfway point I'd say it took a dip in terms of quality, and finally it capped off with some pretty interesting exercises, ending on a good note. 

I believe feeling good about what we're doing is crucial in determining how much we can keep doing it, and this book left me with that idea well cemented in my head. It also provided a new angle for me to look at people, from the way I engage with them to the way I can even “use” them as a sort of accountability tool. 
It made me look at procrastination differently as well, having to go deep into it and analyze why we truly sometimes can't find the motivation to do something. Not always can we accomplish something off of pure discipline, we must have more to it. 

Among other useful ideas, this book delivered and accomplished its goal, in my opinion, which is to serve as a starting point for one to form a solid foundation of productivity and goals for the short, mid and long term.