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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Daniel Goleman

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Rating
6/10
Difficulty
Moderate
Read time
8 hours
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320 pagesRead Aug 5, 2014

Before readingWhy I picked it up

Focus is a skill that can be improved, and it's vital to success professionally and personally. Daniel Goleman has written extensively about emotional intelligence, which was a very impactful read for more and I hope to gain a similar level of insights from focus.

After readingPosted

For a book, entitled Focus, I was disappointed by the book's lack of focus and a core message. Focus, describes three kinds of focus to drive us towards excellence: inner, outer and other and how balancing these are crucial. Inner awareness with mindfulness is a valuable point of the book as well as external awareness around our place within a system and how it affects other individuals and us. The book contained a lot of scattered research and other stories but failed to explain how to fully but the knowledge to use.

Three reasons to read it

  1. You want to improve your focus
  2. Improve your ability to prioritize and be more self-aware
  3. Learn from Goleman's attention research attention into: inner, other, and outer focus

Notes for this book are still being transcribed.