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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

Madeleine Dore · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Madeleine Dore
72/100
👍 Worth It

Dore spent years interviewing hundreds of creative professionals about their daily rhythms, and what she found — that productivity guilt is a learned condition, not a moral failing — lands with genuine weight for anyone who has ever felt behind by noon. The book is more permission-granting than system-building, which is either its gift or its limitation depending on what you came for. Dore narrates her own work in a warm, podcast-conversational style that suits the intimate confessional tone perfectly.

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🎙 Narration: excellent Dore's Australian accent and measured, interview-trained delivery give the audiobook a friendly podcast quality that fits the book's intimate, confessional register.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety78
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing76
Originality64
Evidence & accuracy83
Hype vs delivers81
Age-fit75
👁 Human-eye gut-check71
Penny’s verdict72
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