The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome
Jan 2016 · Hachette UK
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'A fun, interesting, and useful read!' David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done
Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep; cutting out caffeine and sugar; taking a daily siesta; living in total isolation for 10 days; stretching his workweek to 90 hours; and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. The results were often surprising!
This book is the result of Chris's year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection; scheduling less time for important tasks; the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions; and the concept of productive procrastination.
In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried-and-tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more - and become more awesome.
Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep; cutting out caffeine and sugar; taking a daily siesta; living in total isolation for 10 days; stretching his workweek to 90 hours; and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. The results were often surprising!
This book is the result of Chris's year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection; scheduling less time for important tasks; the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions; and the concept of productive procrastination.
In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried-and-tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more - and become more awesome.
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Bhavnick Minhas
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January 5, 2018
This may noy be for everyone, but it helped me quite a lot already. I haven't even finished the book yet! I have read countless books on time management and productivity over the last few years, including some good ones like The Compound Effect and HBR Time Management. They generally talk about the same kind of stuff, like keeping lists and organizing your time. BUT this book was different, in a good way. It presented a very interesting view and I believe it's a good one for most people out there.
S J
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September 21, 2020
You book title should be "My productivity project" All you does is track your habits & lay off little little unnnecessary stuff's & believe that you found a universal solutions to increase one's productivity without any solid evidence or sources. Self-help books are fun to read but materials are totally useless in real life. Self help book only help authors by increasing ↑ their bank balance. 👎🏻
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Irene D
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April 19, 2019
the free sample is the table of contents and an introduction about the author researched productivity, BUT no real material from the main body of the book to help you assess whether the book is for you. I won't buy a self help book unless I can see at least some of the advice within.
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About the author
Chris Bailey, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote over 216,000 words on the subject of productivity on his blog, alifeofproductivity.com, during 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 media as diverse as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York magazine, TED, Fast Company and Lifehacker.
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