

That said, I appreciate McKeown’s ability to simplify complex ideas and distill them in one book around one central theme.

Covering topics that have been written about elsewhere is fine, of course, but I was hoping to see a fresh take on the idea. While I enjoyed Effortless, I couldn’t help but feel many of McKeown’s ideas have been covered elsewhere (and in greater detail).įor instance, Effortless Inversion is better known as inversion, a mental model with a chapter of its own in Shane Parrish’s, The Great Mental Models Vol. General ThoughtsĮffortless is Greg McKeown’s long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling debut book, Essentialism. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want without burning out.
