Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant

Have you ever:
• found yourself stretched too thin?
• concurrently felt overworked and underutilized?
• felt busy but not productive?
• felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.

Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. This can be a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that may be not, so we will make the highest conceivable contribution toward the things that in reality matter.

By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim keep watch over of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to select for us.

Essentialism isn’t one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.