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Don’t Know What To Do Next? Love Your Neighbor

Perman, Matt. What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done, 2014.

In What’s Best Next?, Matt Perman combines a comprehensive knowledge of the best self-development and personal productivity books in the field with a commitment to glorifying God and enjoying him forever. When someone says they would like to see a secular topic examined “from a Christian worldview”, they are imagining a book like this one. Perman worked for John Piper’s Desiring God organization for over a decade and describes the book as working out the horizontal dimension of Christian hedonism, Piper’s name for the teaching that, “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” Accordingly, personal productivity allows us to extend that satisfaction in God to those around us so that His glory is most fully known.

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Essentialism Isn’t Minimalism

McKeown, Greg. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, 2014. Print.

Greg McKeown’s Essentialism has a thesis similar to Richard Koch’s The 80/20 Principle: pursue less and achieve more. This is an attractive offer. It’s a version of Walmart’s USP: “Save money. Live Better.” I.e. spend less and get more. Unfortunately, McKeown too often confuses minimalism and essentialism. The book can’t deliver what McKeown promises because he ultimately doesn’t know what’s essential. 

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Reading Worksheets

My students don’t take reading quizzes. They complete reading worksheets. This vid explains the worksheet’s requirements.