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Hyperfocus
- How to Work Less to Achieve More
- Narrated by: Chris Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
'The most productive man you'd ever hope to meet' – TED
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, you will learn:
- How working fewer hours can increase our productivity
- How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier
- How we do our best creative work when we're the most tired
Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little.
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 scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.
Critic reviews
"The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics – and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!." (Chris Guillebeau, author of Side Hustle)
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- 05-02-19
Good advice
Mostly good sensible advice. It would be better if it referenced more research papers about the subject.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-05-19
Eye opening
I kept laughing at the irony in listening to this, a book about focus that I found it hard to focus on. Highlighting all the traps you typically fall into even while listening. Good advice, jokes and anecdotes - its not boring. It would be beneficial to get a little more on how to achive scatter focus.
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- A. James
- 02-01-19
Fantastic. Game Changer
Really good. Some Golden Nuggets in here. As always needs application in order to fully benefit
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- Larry Reacher
- 15-08-19
Good book, well read
I liked the first half of book most, very interesting. I tried some of the common sense tips, and used the ideas, I definitely feel
the improvement in work load I do, and more important higher quality work done by me ;-)
The explanations on how the mind processes data is super good, explains a lot and the ideas fit the theory very well..
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-08-21
Great insight into how our minds work
The point of any books like this is to find some insight and I am happy with finding just a few precious nuggets of helpful points. This is full of good stuff, however, becomes a little over repetitive. Calling positive thinking wishful thinking made me laugh as it misunderstands what positive thinking is. Being positive without a plan or strategy is wishful thinking. Positive thinking with a firm and detailed strategy is not wishful thinking. This was the only point that really had me shaking my head. For much of the rest I was the nodding dog. Well worth a listen.
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- T. Sofuoglu
- 06-03-20
Not for me
I listened until half way through the book but struggled to get excited about the ideas, finally gave up. Just feels like common sense to me.
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- AC
- 21-05-19
Some good tips, could have been shorter.
Lots of good tips and a great round up of research. Found it laboured many points.
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- Mr Michael Adams
- 02-06-19
Common sense sound advice
Brings a lot of clarity to the things that move us away from what we should be doing. Highly recommended.
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- Mike
- 25-10-18
Now hear this!
Informative and inspiring. Given me a thirst for more on the subject of focus and concentration.
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- Esther Nagle
- 10-03-19
very helpful and inspirational
really enjoyed this book. I was able to focus and listen attentively to it and learned lots that I am beginning to implement already
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