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Make Time
- How to focus on what matters every day
- Narrated by: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Make Time, written and read Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.
What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention?
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned 'design sprint', Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products like Gmail and YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own personal habits and routines, looking for ways to help individuals optimise their energy, focus and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days.
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"If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book." (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit)
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- MarkPT
- 26-01-19
Some good broken down tips
Well narrated and some good tips around mindset and productivity. Particularly like the way they number each rip, and the beginning of each chapter they tell you the 8 tips. Coming up.
It's well. Narrated by the authors, and give some use able, whereas some are a bit drastic but I guess it's about selecting what will Work for you
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- Francesco
- 28-07-20
it's a list
It is nothing more than a list of techniques. that's a good list, but still not a book.
4 people found this helpful
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- R Fuller
- 20-08-19
Really enjoyed the content of this book. A lot of practical tips that I will definitely introduce into my daily routine.
Really enjoyed the content of this book. A lot of practical tips that I will definitely introduce into my daily routine. The narration is great and the way in which the book is written makes it an easy and enjoyable read.
3 people found this helpful
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- Marcus Smith
- 30-01-19
A must read
A great way to look at your life. Love the ideas about designing your time and not letting social media rob it from you. Everyone can learn something from this book and creating long lasting good habits.
3 people found this helpful
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- Scott Hayden
- 16-12-18
Great tips and applicable advice I can run with
Un-pretentious, thoughtful, and directly impactful advice I can start to use immediately. Thanks, fellas - inspired
3 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-11-18
Enjoyable, with helpful hints I will use.
Narrated well and easy to listen to. I liked the various anecdotes as they went along. In general, some easy (and some not so easy!) tips to help you focus, and make time for what is most important to you (and to help you realise what that is).
5 people found this helpful
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- Caroline Harding
- 17-11-21
Talks sense
Not just another be more productive book.
I was looking to use up audible credits and downloaded this, not really expecting much. Following on from this I've removed Facebook from my phone. Gone are the days of mindless scrolling, being dragged into depressing views of the world. I can still access it to catch up, but it's a conscious effort.
loads more tips about prioritising what's important.
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- Lisa K.
- 24-03-21
A gem of a book
I loved this book. infact I'm listening to it for a second time and the third time I will read the kindle copy and make notes. finally when i come across a hard copy, I'm buying it for keeps. Reason: Iitially I dismissed it as a for a book for youngster: FB, instagram etc addicts. As a matter of fact I removed these apps from my phone a long time ago before I came across this book, having realised they are sucking whirl pools. Despite that fact, i have found the idea of clearly defining your "highlight" for the day, deciding your most important single task and qualifying it according to your own importance a lifetime "aha!" moment. I recommend this book to anyone who feels like they are in an endless rat race or absolutely unmotivated despite knowing they have things to do. this one is a keepers gem...a life changer. Enjoy & learn.
1 person found this helpful
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- Doc Lawson
- 23-01-21
Some great ideas. Some unrealistic.
Some great ideas but others are just too much and unrealistic. They try too control you too much. And the concept of ancient humans knowing what's best I just don't buy into.
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- Hannah t.
- 23-03-22
Unoriginal and just talks about email
This book tries to take credit for ideas in "Deep work" or "Flow".
My career doesn't require email and they spent about 2 hours talking about it
with the main message being the obvious- schedule time to reply to email. wow.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-06-22
Great book to bounce ideas
Loved it and great ideas. Although imo the food and exercise part would be better if it were presented with a more detailed scientific study/literature.
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- Ntombezinhle Nzama
- 06-06-22
Straightforward and clear steps
I love how the authors make it clear that they are showing things that can work but you don’t have to do everything and you don’t have to do it all at once. This is less overwhelming. I’m applying a few because I really just want to improve my life
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- D. Oude Bos
- 16-07-21
Many helpful tactics
Easy to apply premise and chock-full of helpful tactics for you to try to make more time for what's important to you, block distractions and maintain your energy.
The audiobook performance was a lot of fun, and matches the ambience of the physical book (which contains fun cartoons) well. A pleasure to listen to.
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- Nana Piesie
- 28-03-21
good
sometimes it sounds like a podcast because the be talking in mouth with each other. really good thoughts otherwise !
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- Jude Perera
- 03-11-20
Wonderful book with great many tips!👌👍
I learned about this book from Ali Aabdaal and thought it would be an awesome read, and boy was Ali correct... this book simply dropped knowledge bombs one after the other... simply awesome and thank you Jake and John and audible too... please read and apply to, make time and increase productivity...👍
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- Alex
- 09-02-20
great listen very practical advice and techniques.
I thought it was a good read with some very practical advice from guys who are living it
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- Saurabh
- 08-06-19
Writers themselves narrating the book!
I've listened to quite a lot of book on Audible now and what stood out the most in this one was that the book is narrated by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky themselves. it helped me connect a lot better with the book.