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The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (And Gain Ridiculous Amounts of Time) by Getting Out of Your Own Way
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Expected 11 Aug 26Are you craving not just extra time but the wisdom and self-awareness to use it joyfully and effectively? An elite executive coach brings us his proprietary approach to finding at least another hour in our day to do anything we want—all by learning to manage our fears and other emotions better.
We often equate saving time with working smarter. If only we could cut unnecessary meetings, streamline emails, and collaborate more strategically, we could claw back all the stolen hours in our day. While these tactical adjustments help, they only skim the surface. The real problem isn’t external, but internal. In The 25th Hour, Neal Schore reveals how our emotional reactions quietly eat away not just at our time but also our energy. It’s the unproductive worrying, the anxiety that blooms and spirals, the decisions we make based on fear, the obsession over other people’s actions and behaviors—all those complicated emotional dynamics that we so rarely address at work. More than anything else, we get in our own way.
In three parts, The 25th Hour offers a simple, practical, paradigm-shifting approach to professional development, moving the focus beyond strategies for greater efficiency to what really costs us so much time and our uncontrolled emotional responses.
Part I starts us off with some simple tools that can help you handle yourself better in any professional exchange, including the one question you should always ask yourself.
Part II introduces a series of strategies for maneuvering when life isn’t going as you’d hoped, including a failsafe way for resetting after a distracting or tough experience leaves you in a miasma of self-doubt.
Part III helps you reach new levels of achievement and efficiency by firing your fears, breaking with your automatic responses, and fighting back against impostor’s syndrome, with creative tools that will make you smile as you put them to work.
Drawing on Schore’s personal experiences and his successful work with some of today’s most consequential business leaders, The 25th Hour will show you how to manage yourself in order to manage your professional life. With proven guidance and tools for becoming more self-aware, reigning in unruly feelings, and preventing needless drama, this book will equip everyone from CEOs to students with the skills to focus in on what matters to work more productively and efficiently while also having more fun along the way. The counterintuitive surprise? Your colleagues will love that you don’t waste their time either!
We often equate saving time with working smarter. If only we could cut unnecessary meetings, streamline emails, and collaborate more strategically, we could claw back all the stolen hours in our day. While these tactical adjustments help, they only skim the surface. The real problem isn’t external, but internal. In The 25th Hour, Neal Schore reveals how our emotional reactions quietly eat away not just at our time but also our energy. It’s the unproductive worrying, the anxiety that blooms and spirals, the decisions we make based on fear, the obsession over other people’s actions and behaviors—all those complicated emotional dynamics that we so rarely address at work. More than anything else, we get in our own way.
In three parts, The 25th Hour offers a simple, practical, paradigm-shifting approach to professional development, moving the focus beyond strategies for greater efficiency to what really costs us so much time and our uncontrolled emotional responses.
Part I starts us off with some simple tools that can help you handle yourself better in any professional exchange, including the one question you should always ask yourself.
Part II introduces a series of strategies for maneuvering when life isn’t going as you’d hoped, including a failsafe way for resetting after a distracting or tough experience leaves you in a miasma of self-doubt.
Part III helps you reach new levels of achievement and efficiency by firing your fears, breaking with your automatic responses, and fighting back against impostor’s syndrome, with creative tools that will make you smile as you put them to work.
Drawing on Schore’s personal experiences and his successful work with some of today’s most consequential business leaders, The 25th Hour will show you how to manage yourself in order to manage your professional life. With proven guidance and tools for becoming more self-aware, reigning in unruly feelings, and preventing needless drama, this book will equip everyone from CEOs to students with the skills to focus in on what matters to work more productively and efficiently while also having more fun along the way. The counterintuitive surprise? Your colleagues will love that you don’t waste their time either!
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Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
4 stars.
This book was unfortunately predictable and therefore mildly disappointing. I really wanted to like this book. I'm a fan of productivity, however, think Marie Forleo, Amy Porterfield and Danielle Laporte. If you're a fan of Gary Keller, Phil Knight and Tony Robbins, this will be your jam.
The book discusses the typical productivity advice. Some of it is worth listening to, however I nearly DNFed when the author gives the suggestion of "asking a clarifying question" that's really just answering a question with a question. If you don't know the meaning of something, ask what it means. A little humility goes a long way, but books like these tend to rest on the fact that the reader is pretty privileged and is given the benefit of the doubt in job interviews.
This book glosses over parenthood, specifically motherhood, a major oversight (and I'm not a mom!). This book is for a 20-early 40 year old with few familial ties or with someone that can take over for them. Time is not always transactional, sometimes it's about nurturing those around you, rather than creating “debits and credits”. Time transforms, it’s not always a transactional. The book sees time in a very black-and-white format, when time tends to be on a spectrum. Again, if you liked Phil Knight, Tony Robbins, Gary Keller, this is your book.
4 stars.
This book was unfortunately predictable and therefore mildly disappointing. I really wanted to like this book. I'm a fan of productivity, however, think Marie Forleo, Amy Porterfield and Danielle Laporte. If you're a fan of Gary Keller, Phil Knight and Tony Robbins, this will be your jam.
The book discusses the typical productivity advice. Some of it is worth listening to, however I nearly DNFed when the author gives the suggestion of "asking a clarifying question" that's really just answering a question with a question. If you don't know the meaning of something, ask what it means. A little humility goes a long way, but books like these tend to rest on the fact that the reader is pretty privileged and is given the benefit of the doubt in job interviews.
This book glosses over parenthood, specifically motherhood, a major oversight (and I'm not a mom!). This book is for a 20-early 40 year old with few familial ties or with someone that can take over for them. Time is not always transactional, sometimes it's about nurturing those around you, rather than creating “debits and credits”. Time transforms, it’s not always a transactional. The book sees time in a very black-and-white format, when time tends to be on a spectrum. Again, if you liked Phil Knight, Tony Robbins, Gary Keller, this is your book.
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Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Many thanks to NetGalley for the eARC of this book.
Anytime I go into a business/time management/self help book like this, I try to imagine I am reading this type of book for the first time. There are a lot of great management and personal suggestions and tips in this book, shortcuts that Schore refers to as his "tools" to help in all sorts of relationships and situations.
That said, I didn't really feel like this book followed through on the thesis of giving someone that vaunted 25th hour. The "debits and credits" tool is probably the closest tool to that overall theme, but the others are really just generally good ideas, not necessarily tangible time savers.
This book is certainly good if you're looking for a general guide to management, but not necessarily one that will shave minutes off your day to find elusive hidden productivity.
Anytime I go into a business/time management/self help book like this, I try to imagine I am reading this type of book for the first time. There are a lot of great management and personal suggestions and tips in this book, shortcuts that Schore refers to as his "tools" to help in all sorts of relationships and situations.
That said, I didn't really feel like this book followed through on the thesis of giving someone that vaunted 25th hour. The "debits and credits" tool is probably the closest tool to that overall theme, but the others are really just generally good ideas, not necessarily tangible time savers.
This book is certainly good if you're looking for a general guide to management, but not necessarily one that will shave minutes off your day to find elusive hidden productivity.
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