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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work

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Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you've glimpsed but can't seem to hold on to-the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.

Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques-prioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even napping-but none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herself-without giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at home-she road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energy-or that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent.

Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to

  • say "no" strategically and when to say "yes" with abandon
  • make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities
  • stop multitasking and gain efficiency
  • "take recess" in sync with the brain's need for rest
  • use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy
  • increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions

Complete with practical "easiest thing" tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carter's own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against "The Overwhelm," letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything right-and start doing the right things.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 20, 2015
ISBN9781101890066
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    There was some great advice in here about habit setting, but every so often she'd come out with a study that I knew factually to be not quite the way she was presenting it* and that really thew it for me. It's a great general motivational book and definitely a good one to listen to while you're doing the dishes or driving to work, but take the science with a pinch of salt - the author is apparently fine with fudging the facts for a more compelling read. This doesn't mean the bulk of the book isn't good, because overall it's a good and well informed piece based on good understanding of the subject, but don't assume everything you hear is true.

    *For instance, there's a famous study into conformity, which showed that the majority of people would willingly give a false answer if the group they were in gave that answer first. However, this study was done on young men during 1951 America ("are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?") when going against the grain was the absolute most dangerous thing you could do. As such, the study has been repeated and has found that, whilst women still tend to give the wrong answer if the group does, young men will not, thus debunking the original study and throwing the findings of the new study into a grey light of "it's complicated." This criticism and repeat of the study is as famous as the study itself, and is commonly learned in first year psych, so I find it very hard to believe that the author didn't know this when she quoted the original one. Without sources, btw. If you're interested, it's the Asch Conformity Study, with the redo being Mori & Arai.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Standard feel good you can have it all motivational book.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was the perfect balance of science/research and spirituality. Highly highly recommend.