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.The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!' Chris Guillebeau 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.
Review
The most productive man you could ever hope to meet -- TED.com
Extraordinary . . . eye-opening -- David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Becoming more productive isn’t about time management; it’s about attention management. I’d tell you more about that, but I lost my train of thought. Luckily this attention-grabbing book is here to help. -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, and coauthor of Option B
When you have read this book, get ready to do your most important work! -- Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup, The Art of Non-Conformity, and The Happiness of Pursuit
Let me guess. You’re like me. You don’t have time to read this book. Or any book! Who has time for books anymore? Well, that’s perfect. Because it means you have the disease. And right now you’re holding the cure -- Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation
I loved the book. -- Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism
Practical, well written and timely. -- Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential
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
I read Hyperfocus on my phone. . . but this book was so engaging I stopped checking email entirely! -- Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours
Being hyperfocused in a busy world is a skill every professional needs in their arsenal. Chris Bailey will show you how to master it in his new book Hyperfocus -- Vanessa Van Edwards, author of Captivate
From the Back Cover
How to manage your attention in order to get stuff done, become more creative and live a meaningful life. Do you feel as though your attention has never been so overwhelmed? That you’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little? Backed by the latest neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness research, <i>Hyperfocus</i> is the solution we’ve all been looking for to best manage our attention. Even more importantly, it reveals a simple, practical model we can all use to achieve greater productivity, creativity and purpose throughout the day. The trick to getting stuff done is to understand that we switch between two attentional modes: hyperfocus – when we are intensely focused on one task, and scatterfocus – when we let our mind wander. By understanding the difference,you can establish a clear physical and mental environment in which to work, thereby managing your motivation and learning when to pay attention and when to let your attention wander usefully. In each chapter you will find practical takeaways to live and work more effectively and creatively. Hyperfocus is an everyday toolkit written to help readers unlock each of the two mental modes so they can focus more deeply, think more clearly and work and live more deliberately every day. Praise for The Productivity Principle Chris Bailey has tackled the daunting task of personally experimenting withany and every technique you can imagine that could positively affect your productivity. His dedication to the project and his intelligent conclusions, combined with his candour and articulateness, make this a fun, interesting, and useful read!’ David Allen, author of Getting Things Done ‘Here’s a book that promises, in the title, to pay for itself. And, the truthis, it will, in just a few days. And you’ll even enjoy the journey.’ Seth Godin, author of Linchpin.
About the Author
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. To date, 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</i>, Chris lives in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada.
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