Real Economist Reacts to 2024's Biggest Productivity Book
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 1. 01. 2024
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We finally have Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity. How is it?
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I like this quote from Ali's book - "My hope is that you leave this book an amateur âproductivity scientistâ: finding some methods that work, discarding others," - I would also agree with this video review, as I understand it saying that Ali's book is a good compendium of many techniques covered in other books. Also, I particularly like Ali's "find the fun" message.
It's also worth remembering that research based on effects in samples extrapolated to the population are focused on average effects. By definition, this means not every individual will get the benefit (whereas applying the prescription to a large group of people would lead to an expected overall benefit). So even if the science is sound, for your own individual application it's worth experimenting to see if it works for YOU. Kind of like Craig's comment on Benjamin Franklin who tested things and found what worked for HIM. Scientific research provides a great starting point for tailoring to your individal needs though.
I have difficulty improving your productivity but when you did the graph I immediately understood the bigger picture on how I can improve myself thankyou
As an economics student, I was contemplating buying it and waiting for a review. Thanks for the vid!
What I am seeing is each CZcamsr taking bits and pieces from the books like you mentioned and presenting it as a new way of doing things. They give credit to the other authors but most are using the same few books as reference. It ends up being only new because of what smorgasbord is presented.
In some ways, I feel like we read a different book :) How curious! I agree about the numerous study references as well as the (unfortunate) de-bunking of many of the experiments over the last couple of years. The whole scientific community has been put under high scrutiny due to those discoveries.
What you said about studyâs is spot on. I have worked with developing and coaching people over the last decade, hands on in the trenches with them. When I hear some of these influencers that promote a study I can tell they donât know what they are talking about in real life scenarios
Yes, I noticed the same thing after reading tons of similar books. I would probably myself be able to write a book collecting all the ideas in the books, which really are not that many to be honest.
This information was very wise. Specifically, I like how you took the real concepts at play and reduced them to an easily understandable chart and provided advice based on it. Stellar, accurate, and so useful. I also like how you pointed out the shaky psychology research that is always sited in comparison to real stories. Like another commenter, I almost stopped the video shortly after it started, but am glad I stuck it out. Thanks for the honest, wise, and helpful advice.
What does being an economist have to do with this book?
The Deworming episode of the Maintenance Phase podcast gets at your points so well too
man, i think this was brilliant. your points about the research and science based books versus the stories (often ancient) is something i find increasingly true. i've not heard anyone say what you did on the benefit of reading "more" productivity books. a few tools in use are better than 100 in the attic.
Great review. Thank you.
âWinning Through Intimidationâby Robert Wringer is a productive book from long ago --read this itâs the GOAT!
Thanks so much for making this as Feel Good Productivity is a book I will most likely not read in the near future due to the research not being proven, solid, or applicable across fields. Saved me time here.
Just thinking about doing more tasks in your day, I believe that the "Marginal Benefit" Curve would be concave rather than convex. The drop in benefit cannot be significantly large from the second task itself. Any thoughts?
Part of the problem with productivity books is that individuals are so heterogeneous. What works for one person might not work for someone else. And what might work at one point in your life might stop working. It all gets down to doing the stuff that you don't want to do, but which makes progress. It is an eternal problem.
From this video on: my view on productivity and productivity books will be permanently changed. I have never thought about it through the P-Q graphs, and now my economist brain will always translate this genre of books to see how the shape, slope and shift of the Marginal Benefit and Marginal Cost curves are affected...
Nice presentation and summing up in a diagram of this genre of books. I agree with you and think books that are about building a system or a method are more useful, like "Getting Things Done" ,"The 80/20 Principle" or "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking"(essentially about learning; and here there are probably more books that could be useful for students). It is probably not a bad thing to read such a book once in a while, but good to be aware that they are very similar so the marginal usefulness is very limited. I read Ali Abdaal's book, mostly as I see some of his CZcams videos, and thought it would be interesting to read his approach, but draw the same conclusion; this is probably the last book in this genre I am buying.
thanks for the video . I studied business but I am a reader of economics and economic history. Indeed, economic history books are mostly Keynesian or "left" leaning. It is difficult to find bibliography that has a different perspective. And they also have problems of not having data and being very interpretive. I don't know if you have read How the world became rich by Koyama, it is a great book. For Latin America you could read Bulmer Thomas (left bias too) although his view is structuralist and he considers that the ISI is the solution (something that failed in Latin America) however it is a very good book with very good data. Another author would be Carlos Parodi but he only writes in Spanish and behind the left by Sebastian edwards .Please continues to recommend books on economic history, it is a very beautiful field and I think it is the one that brings us closest to the truth from an economic perspective. I will read your recommendation, thank you. Im train BJJ to .