I have read a number of books that take hundreds of pages to sell a single message. Sometimes these end up being the most impactful books I read. Other times they are a slog. The nature of these books is that the message they sell is worth spending a great amount of time on. It is through the [[Desired Difficulty]] of reading an entire book to "hear" its message that a such simple message can be retained. Simply reading the table below (or listening to well crafted and entertaining YouTube book summaries) does not give you the same effect as spending the time necessary to get through the hundreds of pages. # Examples | Book | Message | | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[Breath]] | Breathe through your nose, roughly 5-6 times per minute | | [[Don't Believe Everything You Think]] | To stop suffering, don't think about it | | [[Why We Sleep]] | Sleep is probably the most important thing we do | | [[10% Happier]] | You should try meditation | | [[The Checklist Manifesto]] | Checklists are a really good idea in lots of situations | | [[Bored and Brilliant]] | You should embrace boredom more often to live a better life | | [[Essentialism]] | [[Less, but Better]] | | [[Measure What Matters]] | [[OKRs]] are an effective way to achieve results in an organization | This list is shorter than it could have been. Many books said *essentially* one thing, but didn't quite make my cut just now. For example [[Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity]] *essentially* says "use a system of lists to manage things", but that message doesn't carry quite enough meaning without the context of **how** to do that. **** # More ## Source - [[Myself]] ## Related -