这本书对于建立习惯很有帮助，而且习惯背后的原理解释十分清晰。我自己在阅读的时候是分散式阅读的：每次读完一个可实践的建议，就先去自己做一段时间，遇到问题时再回到书中检索一下，所以这本书更多算是「习惯建立指导手册」，可以细分到极小的操作步骤和运用场景。另外也可以结合类似话题的书籍一起比较着阅读，通过比较和探索实践，找到最适合自己的方法。14.Deep Work 中文名《深度工作》
你会发现这几本书读完以后，有很多重叠的部分，不过各有侧重。这本书主要涉及到「为何在各类繁复事情中，找到最重要的事情」是非常关键的。我们对于精要或者精简的理解也许停留在尽量少做不重要的事情，但是书中强调更多的是不仅要少，还要追求优质。很多事情继续做下去，也会给你带来不少益处，但是仍要学会忍痛割爱，因为相比于最重要的那些事情，这些「收益」相比之下就不值得去过多关注。因此，这本更多是关于「优化选择和决策」的书。分享一段书中关于Essentialism的定义给大家：'The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.'16.Four Thousand Weeks-Time Management for Mortals中文名《四千周》
这是一本新书，和一般的效率提升类的书籍相比，这本更加「人性化」一点，教大家如何在真正认知到时间有限的前提下，避开「效率陷进」。涉及的内容看上去也没有什么新奇的地方，但是作者的论证过程十分有意思；而且阅读的时候，经常会有共鸣产生，比如面对每天做不完的事情，你是否有类似的心情：“We’re obsessed with our overfilled inboxes and lengthening to-do lists, haunted by the guilty feeling that we ought to be getting more done, or different things done, or both.”干完了手里的事情，总还有新的事情等着自己，而往往跑得越快，要追赶的事情也越多，用现在的话来讲，就是感觉世界「太卷」了，我也必须跟着无时无刻卷起来。再比如，年龄越大，主观上时间也过得越快，大家是不是也有过类似的感受（比如2021年嗖的一下，只有两个月了
），作者是这样描述的：
“Meanwhile, no catalog of our time-related troubles would be complete without mentioning that alarming phenomenon, familiar to anyone older than about thirty, whereby time seems to speed up as you age—steadily accelerating until, to judge from the reports of people in their seventies and eighties, months begin to flash by in what feels like minutes. ”在诸如此类的现实情况下，作者反复强调了自己的理念：The Journey is the reward。当然，展开来讲的话，内容就很多了。想要读一些深深感动自己的书： 17. A Monster Calls中文名《当怪物来敲门》
我跟别人讲，这本书要上了年纪才能读懂一些，要不然就只能读到如下的情节：一个怪怪的老奶奶。Olive确实很奇怪，不过当你认识她以后，你又觉得她很亲近。书的风格延续了第一本，全是淡淡而又细腻的描述，书里有形形色色的人，各种怪诞却也合乎逻辑的故事。一本书融合了这么多的人生，如同万花筒，错过可惜。分享一段经典的场景描述，作者很善于用简单的词汇表达人物的孤独：“As he drove, an almost-calmness came to him, and once in Portland he parked and walked down by the water. Summer had opened itself, and while it was still chilly in mid-June, the sky was blue and the gulls were flying above the docks. There were people on the sidewalks, many were young people with kids or strollers, and they all seemed to be talking to one another. This fact impressed him. How easily they took this for granted, to be with one another, to be talking!”19.The Book Thief中文名《偷书贼》
