On Monday 11th August 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark.

 

In this summary of The Long Game by Dorie Clark.  I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

 

The Long Game by Dorie Clark. is split into three sections, followed by a Coda:

Section One: White Space
Section Two: Focus Where It Counts
Section Three: Keeping the Faith
Coda: Three Keys to Becoming a Long-Term Thinker

 

 

In Section One: White Space, Dorie shares why it’s important to have space in your calendar and the time to think, but why so few of us have that. Dorie explores why most people are so busy and argues it a mixture of wanting the perceived status that goes along with being busy, but also a focus on execution. Dorie makes it very clear that making white space is vital and that for many of us, that means we have to get better at saying no, even to things that we’d like to do. 

 

Then in Section Two: Focus Where It Counts Dorie discusses goals and how many people optimise for money, and there are other ways to optimise, ways that could be considered better. The 20% time concept is discussed with the reader being encourage to take time to explore. Then you are challenged to think about time and the way you work differently, whether this is thinking in waves, considering leverage more and paying attention to your network. 

 

Finally, in Section Three: Keeping the Faith Dorie talks about patience and how it necessary to put in time, and continue to keep continue to put in the work even though it will take time for you to experience the benefits. There is also a discussion on failure and we need to treat things as experiments.

 

Right at the end there is a short Coda where Dorie shares the three keys, according to her, that are needed to become a long-term thinker.

 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of The Long Game by Dorie Clark. 

Like the sound of The Long Game by Dorie Clark. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

Buy The Long Game on Amazon

 

 

 

The Long Game by Dorie Clark was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

 

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