This is the category which social media, apps, clickbait material, and other sources of limitless content fall under. The Infinity Pools describe the things that keep us distracted. It also refers to the present-day attitude that tells us that the busier we are, the more productive we are and that if we’re not as busy as everyone else around us, we will fall behind. The Busy Bandwagon category is made up of the things that keep you busy such as work commitments and life admin tasks. They are categorized into two groups the “Busy Bandwagon” and the “Infinity Pools”. Knapp and Zeratsky narrow down our lack of time to two things, things that keep us busy and things that keep us distracted. While we’re fortunate to have so many conveniences at our fingertips, it can also be detrimental as there are so many apps and services that absorb our time. Living in this digital world can be a double-edged sword. A more realistic approach than the major life overhaul that’s typical in other self-help books, Knapp and Zeratsky’s methods highlight how you can adjust your current environment to make time. What this book offers is a framework that can assist you in creating more time in your day through a set of tactics and a four-step system. The advice and information featured are not groundbreaking and the authors themselves note this.
They use their experience and knowledge from their time at tech heavyweights Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, and writing their first book, Sprint, to come up with the Make Time method.Īs adamantly stated in the first few pages, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day is not a productivity book. That’s what the former designers and bestselling authors, Knapp and Zeratsky say. T he way we lead our lives and the reason why it’s so consumed with so many tasks is that we are reacting to the standards set up by our society. In this article, I’ll go through the Make Time approach, why it came about, and then attempt to redesign my day. Instead of ticking tasks off our to-do lists quicker or perfecting the art of time management, they propose we redesign our time so that we can spend a portion of it on the things we truly care about. This results in having no time to do the things that matter to us, whether it’s spending time with our family or pursuing a personal hobby.Īuthors of Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky offer up a solution in their book. Immersed in a culture that places busyness on a pedestal, the more things we’re occupied with, the more effective it appears that we are. Citizens of the 21st century live in a constant state of busyness.
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