9 Focus
In this short chapter, you’ll take a quick tour through the most important lesson in this book: how to focus. We started this book with a discussion of complexity, the origin of many productivity obstacles. Here, we summarize how to tackle complexity based on what you’ve learned in this book.
The Weapon Against Complexity
The main thesis of this book is that complexity leads to chaos. Chaos is the flip side of focus. To solve the challenges posed by complexity, you need to use the powerful weapon of focus.
To justify this argument, let’s look at the scientific concept of entropy, well known in many scientific fields such as thermodynamics ...
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