The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

The rule of 3: This is what I personally have been doing for the past 10 months and it's amazing. It's pretty difficult to become more productive day in and day out when you don't care about what you want to accomplish on a deeper levelThe best way to measure your productivity is to ask yourself at the end of the day: Did I get done what I intended to do? So let's get to some of the greatest insights:Ĭhris Argues that his most treasured lesson he learned is before all answering the question: why do you want to become more productive. What's so cool and inspiring about this book is that Chriss Bailey the author takes a year off to try and test a wide spectrum of ideas and observe how they affect his productivity and that's actually what makes this book valuable: battle-tested ideas. If you value efficiency, meaning, control, discipline, growth, freedom, learning, and knowledge, this is the book for you. This book envelopes many great ideas that have proven to make you more productive and are results of one year engagement with numerous experiments from the author. In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more. and the concept of productive procrastination.the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions.scheduling less time for important tasks.shrinking or eliminating the unimportant.Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach The Productivity Project -and the lessons Chris learned-are the result of that year-long journey. Among the experiments that he 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 a 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. A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.Ĭhris 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.

The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey