Category: “Personal Productivity”

A great deal of things we do on a daily basis are habits, things such as brushing our teeth after eating, going to the gym after work or reviewing our tasks first thing in the morning.

In each and every one of us two ways of thinking exist which have been differently named by psychologists throughout time. Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences due to his investigations on human judgement and its involvement in economical decision making, describes these two systems as follows:

Jason Fried says in his book Rework that in Basecamp, company in which he is co-founder and CEO, one of the abilities that they are interested in when hiring people is their writing ability, no matter if they are sales people, programmers, or designers. The reason is simple: Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Good writers know how to communicate, they make things easy to understand and they know when to leave out the unnecessary.

Managing Oneself is a short book written by Peter Drucker in 1999 and published by Harvard Business Review. Drucker says in this book that today, in a society where most of us are knowledge workers and will have a useful working life of about 50 years, it is essential to learn to manage ourselves. Only then will we be able to place ourselves where our contribution is most valued at all times.

I read many books. Before buying a book related to technology, economy, business, personal development etc., I usually read sufficient reviews and recommendations so that I don’t make a mistake when picking the next book to read. However, I don’t do the same thing with fictions books, mainly because I usually don’t like what most people like.