Beschreibung
‘Read this book if you want a stress-relieving salve as well as a guarantee to improve both your productivity and happiness.’ Jim Citrin, author of The Career Playbook [Include author photo] A practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life In Hyperfocus, you will learn: – How working fewer hours can increase our productivity – How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy – How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier – How we do our best creative work when we’re the most tired Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, the bestselling author of The Productivity Project provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. Chris Bailey reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.
Chris Bailey ran a year-long productivity project where he conducted intensive research, as well as dozens of productivity experiments on himself, to discover how to become as productive as possible. He has written hundreds of articles on the subject and has garnered coverage in the media as diverse as the New York Times, Huffington Post, New York magazine, Harvard Business Review, TED, Fast Company and Lifehacker. The author of The Productivity Project, Chris lives in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada.