The One Thing

This book is about an idea that you have to concentrate on one thing to achieve the extraordinary results in any domain of your life. The author says that things don't matter equally and we have to choose what we'll do every day very carefully and not get distracted by all the other things that we could be doing instead.

This is a wide-spread idea, which one can read in many other self-help books. Gary Keller talks about the mastery mindset, Ericsson's research about 10,000 hours, the couple of success myths and much more. Therefore, it's nice to hear about those ideas once again, even though some of the stuff that he mentions are quite obvious.

I think that one of the main takeaways of this book is the following question:

What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

It's a simple but powerful question. If one figures out the ONE thing that he or she will do in different areas of one's life with concentrated time blocks, according to Gary's clever metaphor, it can become the first domino in the stack of hundreds, which illustrates the baby steps that snowballs into the extraordinary results in the future.