the productivity project by chris bailey

the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions.

scheduling less time for important tasks.shrinking or eliminating the unimportant.slowing down to work more deliberately.Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach you: The Productivity Project -and the lessons Chris learned-are the result of that year-long journey. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep he cut out caffeine and sugar he lived in total isolation for 10 days he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months he gained ten pounds of muscle mass he stretched his work week to 90 hours a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months-all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream-to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.

The productivity project by chris bailey