An essential book about how to conserve your primary resource—mental fuel—and how to make your to-do list truly actionable and reliably achieve results. Practical, proven, and well-founded techniques in a pocketbook format.

We all know how to work properly, but many of us still have a huge problem with it!

We know that we need to prioritize correctly, tackle the most important things first, avoid getting distracted by trivialities when we're busy with important work, eat an elephant in parts, a frog in the morning, and drink bat tea at night... We all know this, but for some reason we do everything the way we're used to—that is, poorly. The worst thing you can do in this situation is to start blaming yourself for being disorganized, which will ultimately lead to a ton of complexes and even worse performance, only to start hating everyone around you.

Most likely, all these rules and recommendations don't work for the same reason that horror stories on cigarette packs don't stop smokers. Apparently, there's something in our brains that makes us this way. In the case of smokers, it's drug addiction. In the case of an inability to follow through, it's a failure to recognize simple, yet crucial, features of how our thinking works, which make us less rational than we think we are.

In his book, Maxim Dorofeev clearly explains how we are structured and why this happens. He collected the alloy of skills and knowledge that at one time saved his brain from collapse from overload and, relying on modern views of psychology and physiology of the human brain, conveyed it to the reader in simple language.

From the book you will learn:

How thinking and memory work.
Where we lose mental fuel - wastefully spending brain resources.
How to conserve mental fuel, concentrate, correctly formulate tasks and recover for productive work.
How to implement all the acquired knowledge in life and avoid typical mistakes.

Should you read this book?

The author offers a fairly simple way to understand whether you should continue reading this book and how useful it can be for you. So:

Set a timer (for example, on your smartphone) for 10 minutes;
Sit comfortably;
Close your eyes and try to remember everything you did today and yesterday, in reverse chronological order - event by event;
Every time you remember something that you almost forgot - add it to the list in front of you;

If you remembered today and yesterday, and the alarm has not yet gone off, continue to wait for it to ring with your eyes closed.

You should definitely continue reading this book if the alarm caught you in any of the following situations:

- You were nonstop writing down things that you urgently need to do.
- You 'quickly sent another email.'
- You got stuck on social media after deciding to 'quickly check what's there.'
- You remembered about this book a day later, or more.

Book features:

Convenient and high-quality format - you can take the book with you anywhere.
Pocketbooks take up little space, but bring a lot of benefits.
The pocketbook series includes the most important books of MYTH.

Who is this book for:

For everyone who wants to live and work productively, without overload and burnout.
For specialists and analysts, managers, owners of small and medium businesses, students of economic specialties.