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[A] mistake I think people make all too often with productivity. I had essentially reverted to a factory mindset and equated productivity with efficiency, instead of looking at how much I accomplished.
See also the idea of taking ownership on the task you feel like procrastinating on by making a decision, any decision, on it to stimulate the motivation center of the brain from Smarter, Faster, Better.
The internet tempts us to work on lower-impact tasks. Though we are technically working when we do things like continually check our email, we're not as productive, because we don't accomplish as much through those tasks.
[T]ime will continue to tick on at the same rate, but what actually fluctuates on a day-to-day basis is how much energy and attention you have. In the knowledge economy, that's what makes or breaks how productive you are, and more important, it's something you can actually control.
Answering email, attending meetings, and keeping up with social media are the "maintenance tasks" of work; they support the most fruitful tasks in your job, and just like doing the laundry and paying your bills, they're very hard to get rid of.
This chapter makes the argument for using a trysted system a la GTD by David Allen, focusing on the value of collecting ideas in an inbox and the processing the inbox creating projects with actions from those ideas.
Note that you don't have to use exactly those 7 hot spots. The core concept is to identify which of your values or areas of focus the projects you're working on touch, and to be intentional in what you decide to work on in relation to them.
[O]ur mind seesaws between two modes throughout the day: a "wandering" mode, which we experience when we're taking a shower, and a "central executive" mode, which we experience when we're on our smartphones or focused intently on something.
When you repeatedly move your attentional spotlight from one thing to another, your brain gets overloaded. And when your brain is overloaded, it shifts its processing from your hippocampus (responsible for memory) to the area of your brain responsible for rote tasks, making it difficult to learn a new task or recall what you were doing before you were interrupted.
You can for example hide your social media app inside folders in your phone adding friction to open them, or use a browser plugin to add a delay in from of infotainment sites you find yourself wandering to.
Alongside environment distractions there are also multitasking distractions. When working, or rather attempting to work, on more than one thing at a time we prevent our mind from being effective, even if it feels like we're getting lots done.
I liked the suggestion of how to change your food habits. Most diets fail, either because they are too demanding or because they are fads. But an incremental approach made of tiny changes over time can produce lasting results.
The power of incremental improvements lies in the fact that while they're not significant by themselves, week after week, month after month, they add up to produce long-term results that will blow you away.
I believe this is applies to many areas outside diet, like mastery of our working tools or relationships. It's also in line with my view of productivity as a life long journey, not a series of hacks and apps.
Also avoid caffeine for at least 8 hours before going to sleep. I've been doing this since reading the book with good results, although it doesn't help with toddlers waking up in the middle of the night, or possums jumping on your roof.
Website: ALifeOfProductivity.com
Book: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
Bio: Chris Bailey, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote over 216,000 words on the subject of productivity on his blog, ayearofproductivity.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.
Peter: People do it all the time. The challenge itself is: how do we maintain our attention during these difficult times? How do we prevent ourselves from following tangents that we know are not productive and yet almost irresistible?
Peter: Let me switch gears here a little bit, you mention a super interesting MRI scan in your book between your present self and a stranger and your future self. Could you describe that?
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Bailey was born in Red Deer, Alberta, and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.[2] He first became interested in productivity in high school, after reading David Allen's 2001 book Getting Things Done.[3] He moved to Ottawa, Ontario, to attend Carleton University, graduating from the Sprott School of Business in 2013.[2][4] Bailey lives in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife, Ardyn Nordstrom.[5]
After college, Chris Bailey took a one-year sabbatical to research and conduct experiments in productivity on himself, documenting his experiences on his blog, A Year of Productivity (later renamed A Life of Productivity).[6] He began the year-long project in May 2013, testing new and old productivity theories through experiments including living in seclusion for 10 days; limiting his smartphone use to an hour a day for 3 months; getting up at 5:30 am each morning; and experimenting with varying-length workweeks, between 20 hours and 90 hours, to find the optimal workweek length. He watched 296 TED talks (roughly 70 hours) in 7 days, and then compiled lists on his blog of 100 things he learned, the 7 characteristics of highly effective TED speakers, and 10 TED talks one can watch in order to be more productive.[3][4][7][8][9]
Insights and strategies learned from these experiments, as well as from interviews with other experts in the field, were compiled into his 2016 book The Productivity Project,[1][10] a Canadian nonfiction bestseller[11] and the top-selling nonfiction audio book on Audible.com for the week ending July 15, 2016.[12] The Globe and Mail named The Productivity Project one of the 10 best management and business books of 2016,[13] and Fortune magazine named it one of three best business books of the year.[14] The Mandarin Chinese translation was a bestselling Business Finance book in Taiwan.[15]
The book's main principles involve learning to manage one's time, energy and attention.[1][16] Among other productivity tactics, Bailey discusses the benefits of finding one's Biological Prime Time (the unique time of day when a person has their highest energy level) and dedicating that time to performing important tasks,[1][17] through the creation of a daily to-do list limited to the three most important things that need to be accomplished that day.[6][18] In addition to a "to-do" list, Bailey recommends keeping a "done" list of one's largest accomplishments, adding to it each week and reviewing it every Sunday to gain inspiration for the week ahead.[19] He also advises sitting alone in a room for 15 minutes, allowing the brain to wander, and taking notes with a pen and paper, a concept adapted from cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Levitin.[20]
Bailey has also advised that to be more efficient while watching television, one could simultaneously perform mindless everyday chores around the house, such as doing laundry, working out, or doing the dishes.[21] He suggests delaying coffee consumption until before embarking on an important task in order to fully utilize the resulting energy boost, rather than drinking coffee automatically at the same time each day.[22] He has stated that in the workplace, employers should focus on employees' accomplishments instead of how late they stay at work, to emphasize quality over quantity.[23] Regarding work emails, Bailey advises to keep them brief (three sentences or less), to send them early in the work day, and to wait to reply to gain more insight and give yourself time to put together a succinct and effective message.[24]
Bailey's second book, Hyperfocus, was published by Viking Press on August 28, 2018.[26] For the book, he conducted a yearlong research experiment to determine how people can be as productive as possible each day, in a world filled with nonstop technology distractions.[27] The book offers advice on maintaining and controlling focus, determining priorities, and minimizing interruptions in order to increase productivity. It is split into two sections: the first on hyperfocus, or being productive by devoting all your attention to completing a task; and the second on scatterfocus, where you allow your mind to wander, which supports creativity and can help to recharge.[28][29][30] Bailey writes that you can increase focus and improve attention span by reducing your time with online access, letting your attention wander, and focusing on building a quality attention span.[31] He recommends methods such as keeping emails brief (five sentences or less; if a response requires more, he makes a phone call), responding to emails in batches, and turning off email notifications.[32] He recommends meditating daily to increase productivity, and setting intentions daily, weekly, and yearly.[33]
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