The book’s biggest downfall is that it lacks ethos, or credibility. (I’ll be respectful and not post them here.) Some of these diagrams are so confusing that they look satirical. It then spends 240 pages rephrasing this same message repeatedly with bewildering diagrams. The book tried to improve these people’s lives with the following mantra: “Focus on one thing at a time”. Their universe is no wider than an office cubicle, and their only ‘window’ is a glaring computer screen. People are cogs in corporate machines and have forgotten how to think for themselves. People’s attention spans have been crushed, creativity has been killed, and people only skim-read because they have no time to pause and reflect. The One Thing is set in a fantasy world where small-minded, burned-out office workers busy themselves with mundane tasks like organising emails into folders or rearranging staples. I want you to read this review with an image of the book’s target audience in mind. I didn’t gain anything from this book because thankfully, I’m not one of those people. By applying the same logic, I conclude that the target audience of The One Thing is a sedentary desk-worker overwhelmed with boring, repetitive filing tasks and whose life has no sense of fulfillment. I bought David Buzan’s Speed Reading from a market stall and used it (along with a blog) as motivation to read hundreds of books in the two years that followed. It was an excellent self-help book that encouraged me to start reading back in 2011. That said, I do like some self-help books. Only a tiny minority of self-help books persist with long-term fame ( Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, for example), while the vast majority get thrown out along with each passing fad. They overuse bold, italics and underlining, which makes the insulting assumption that, like those office workers I mentioned previously, I am incapable of focusing on extended prose. At worst, they can seem preachy and idiosyncratic. Office-desk fantasy for dullard corporate brainwash victimsĪdmittedly, I usually don’t like self-help books. The 6 Best Graduation Speeches on YouTube.How to Make Great Notes (15 steps + video).Help! My exam is in 3 days’ time and I haven’t studied for it.All-new Annotated VCE Chemistry Data Book for 2021 Chemistry Course.Common Mistakes in VCE Chemistry (2016).Fighting Chemophobia Third Edition (2018).E-xplosion: E-numbers Explained! (Dec 2013).Visual Guide to E-Numbers: Part I: E100 Series.Meet the Terpenes: A Visual Introduction from Isoprene to Latex.Table of Organic Compounds and their Smells (250+ smells!).
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