Chris Bailey

The Productivity Project

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For readers who made David Allen's Getting Things Done a perennial bestseller, a fresh and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns just about everyone over the course of their careers: how to be more productive at work, and in every facet of our lives. After earning his business degree, Chris Bailey turned down several lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream--to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the subject of productivity. Bailey had been fascinated with productivity since he was a young teenager, when he began researching every paper and every book available on the topic. After graduating college, he created a blog to chronicle his year long series of productivity experiments on himself, and well as his continuing research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he attempted: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep;…
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  • Vyacheslavhas quoted3 years ago
    The more disconnected you are from your future self, the more likely you are to do things like:

    Give your future self more work than you would give your present self

    Agree to unproductive or pointless meetings far off in the future

    Keep ten uninspiring documentaries around on your PVR that you’ll “get around to watching”

    Continually transfer aversive tasks to tomorrow’s to-do list

    Save less money for retirement
  • Vyacheslavhas quoted3 years ago
    But our prefrontal cortex wins out a lot of the time, too. It is the reason we set aside money for retirement, hit the gym after work to get into shape, overcome the six triggers of procrastination, and read about productivity. It’s the part of your brain that is constantly fighting for you to achieve your long-term goals, instead of the goals that are only pleasurable in the short term. And it is nearly impossible to become more productive without a strong prefrontal cortex.
  • María Fraustohas quoted4 years ago
    the best attitude to have with productivity is an odd one: to never be satisfied—but to continually find ways to cultivate happiness.

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