Chris Bailey Knihy

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 '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 GuillebeauIn Hyperfocus, you will learn: - How working fewer hours can increase our productivity - How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy - How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier - How we do our best creative work when we're the most tiredOur attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, the bestselling author of The Productivity Project provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. Chris Bailey 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.

Learn to savour life's best moments - no matter how busy you are - through mindset shifts that alter your perception of time.

This engaging exploration delves into the universal quest for enhanced productivity in work and life. Chris Bailey, driven by a passion for productivity since his teenage years, opted to forgo lucrative job offers to dedicate a year to experimenting with various productivity techniques. After earning his business degree, he documented his self-experiments on a blog, while also interviewing leading experts like Charles Duhigg and David Allen. His experiments included weeks of minimal sleep, cutting out caffeine and sugar, isolating himself for ten days, limiting smartphone use, gaining muscle, extending his workweek to 90 hours, and waking up at 5:30 AM for three months. Throughout this journey, he meticulously tracked how these changes affected his work quality and quantity. The insights gleaned from this year-long project include counterintuitive strategies such as working more deliberately by slowing down, eliminating unimportant tasks, applying the rule of three, embracing imperfection, scheduling less time for significant tasks, using the 20-second rule to minimize distractions, and understanding productive procrastination. This eye-opening read is packed with over 25 actionable best practices to help you achieve more.

How to Calm Your Mind is a practical guide on how to lead a less anxious life and become more productive in the process, from Chris Bailey, the bestselling author of Hyperfocus.

Focusing on the experiences of primary school children in a year-long after-school club, the book explores their engagement with virtual world play, particularly through Minecraft. Utilizing a unique methodological approach called 'rhizomic ethnography,' it combines text and visuals to illustrate how the children's digital community was influenced by both the game and their broader social contexts. The author highlights the emergent nature of play and provides insights valuable for researchers interested in children's play, visual methods, and multimodal research outputs.

Ruhe bewahren in stressigen Zeiten Überstunden, Stress und mediale Dauerberieselung gehören im Berufsalltag schon fast zum guten Ton. Doch mehr zu arbeiten, bedeutet nicht, mehr zu leisten – im Gegenteil: Viele sind überfordert von nicht enden wollenden To-do-Listen oder fühlen sich zunehmend ausgebrannt und rastlos. Der Produktivitätsexperte Chris Bailey weiß aus der eigenen Erfahrung eines Burnouts: Das Geheimnis eines produktiven Lebens besteht darin, in ausreichend Ruhe zu investieren. Er zeigt, was wir tun können, um versteckte Stressquellen in unserem Alltag zu beseitigen, wie man sich durch »Stimulationsfasten« vom Dauerbeschuss der digitalen Welt erholt, und erklärt, wie man lernt, ohne Schuldgefühle zu entspannen. Es geht schließlich darum, zur Ruhe zu kommen, um nicht nur konzentrierter und überlegter zu arbeiten, sondern auch zufriedener und glücklicher durchs Leben zu gehen.