Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus

How to Work Less to Achieve More

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Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is 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, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatter focus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.

INTRO

Chris calls out why it’s harder than ever to focus, and how you must take ownership in order to change

  • Screens (3m24)

CREATIVITY

Chris and how managing our attention and energy is just as important as managing our time

Chris makes the case for loosening your attention and focus in order to be creative

Scatterfocus (2m24)

SET GOALS

Thomas Frank breaks down Chris Bailey’s approach to intention setting, and references David Allen’s

  • Set intentions to focus (2m34)

OUTRO

Chris on how to disconnect from the need of feeling productive all the time with intention and accomplishment list

  • Busyness is laziness (2m56)

READING LIST

  1. Chris Bailey - Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More

  2. Hyperfocus summary

READING

Hyperfocus - How to Work Less to Achieve More