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'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.

'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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The most productive man you could ever hope to meet -- TED.com

Extraordinary . . . eye-opening -- David Allen, author of Getting Things Done

Becoming more productive isn’t about time management; it’s about attention management. I’d tell you more about that, but I lost my train of thought. Luckily this attention-grabbing book is here to help. -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, and coauthor of Option B

When you have read this book, get ready to do your most important work! -- Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup, The Art of Non-Conformity, and The Happiness of Pursuit

Let me guess. You’re like me. You don’t have time to read this book. Or any book! Who has time for books anymore? Well, that’s perfect. Because it means you have the disease. And right now you’re holding the cure -- Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation

I loved the book. -- Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism

Practical, well written and timely. -- Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential

Read this book if you want a stress-relieving salve as well as a guarantee to improve both your productivity and happiness. -- Jim Citrin, author of The Career Playbook

I read Hyperfocus on my phone. . . but this book was so engaging I stopped checking email entirely! -- Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours

Being hyperfocused in a busy world is a skill every professional needs in their arsenal. Chris Bailey will show you how to master it in his new book Hyperfocus -- Vanessa Van Edwards, author of Captivate --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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How to manage your attention in order to get stuff done, become more creative and live a meaningful life. Do you feel as though your attention has never been so overwhelmed? That you’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little? Backed by the latest neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness research, Hyperfocus is the solution we’ve all been looking for to best manage our attention. Even more importantly, it reveals a simple, practical model we can all use to achieve greater productivity, creativity and purpose throughout the day. The trick to getting stuff done is to understand that we switch between two attentional modes: hyperfocus – when we are intensely focused on one task, and scatterfocus – when we let our mind wander. By understanding the difference,you can establish a clear physical and mental environment in which to work, thereby managing your motivation and learning when to pay attention and when to let your attention wander usefully. In each chapter you will find practical takeaways to live and work more effectively and creatively. Hyperfocus is an everyday toolkit written to help readers unlock each of the two mental modes so they can focus more deeply, think more clearly and work and live more deliberately every day. Praise for The Productivity Principle: ‘Chris Bailey has tackled the daunting task of personally experimenting withany and every technique you can imagine that could positively affect your productivity. His dedication to the project and his intelligent conclusions, combined with his candour and articulateness, make this a fun, interesting, and useful read!’ David Allen, author of Getting Things Done ‘Here’s a book that promises, in the title, to pay for itself. And, the truthis, it will, in just a few days. And you’ll even enjoy the journey.’ Seth Godin, author of Linchpin --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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How to manage your attention in order to get stuff done, become more creative and live a meaningful life. Do you feel as though your attention has never been so overwhelmed? That you’ve never been so busy while accomplishing so little? Backed by the latest neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness research, Hyperfocus is the solution we’ve all been looking for to best manage our attention. Even more importantly, it reveals a simple, practical model we can all use to achieve greater productivity, creativity and purpose throughout the day. The trick to getting stuff done is to understand that we switch between two attentional modes: hyperfocus – when we are intensely focused on one task, and scatterfocus – when we let our mind wander. By understanding the difference,you can establish a clear physical and mental environment in which to work, thereby managing your motivation and learning when to pay attention and when to let your attention wander usefully. In each chapter you will find practical takeaways to live and work more effectively and creatively. Hyperfocus is an everyday toolkit written to help readers unlock each of the two mental modes so they can focus more deeply, think more clearly and work and live more deliberately every day. Praise for The Productivity Principle: ‘Chris Bailey has tackled the daunting task of personally experimenting withany and every technique you can imagine that could positively affect your productivity. His dedication to the project and his intelligent conclusions, combined with his candour and articulateness, make this a fun, interesting, and useful read!’ David Allen, author of Getting Things Done ‘Here’s a book that promises, in the title, to pay for itself. And, the truthis, it will, in just a few days. And you’ll even enjoy the journey.’ Seth Godin, author of Linchpin --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Chapter 0

Why Focus Matters

Attention Is Everywhere

I'm writing these words over the sounds of clanging cutlery and muffled conversation at a small diner in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

I've always been a fan of people-watching. There's so much to take in--how they dress, walk, converse, and act when they're either around or not around others. At a busy café, or at a diner like this, it's fun to see personalities collide like particles in an accelerator; to observe a guy's personality change when he switches from talking to his friend to chatting up the waitress; to watch the personalities of waitstaff shift when serving each table, adapting to large families, young couples.

In focusing on other people, I've made a lot of observations about what those people are focusing on. In any given moment, we are all focusing on something, even if we're just lost in our internal thoughts. Let's take a glance through the diner.

I turn my attention first to the two twentysomething girls at the table to my left, who are mostly focusing on their smartphones instead of each other. Between bouts of texting, they flip their phones facedown on the table. This, it seems, is a pretty pointless gesture--they've picked them back up thirty seconds later. While I can't make out their every word, I can tell they're skimming the surface of the conversation they could be having. They're with each other in person, but their attention is elsewhere.

Or take the couple across the room. They're engrossed in a conversation fueled by hot coffee and buttermilk pancakes. They were engaged in relatively quiet small talk when they arrived, but their conversation soon became more animated. Unlike the girls, this couple has focused only on each other since sitting down.

A catchy Ed Sheeran song comes on over the restaurant's speakers, and my attention is drawn to the two guys sitting a few tables over from the couple. One of them subtly taps his foot to the beat while his friend orders. The foot tapper is presumably spreading his attention across three things: the song, what his friend is ordering, and his own breakfast decision. After he orders the Three Egg Express, when the server asks how he'd like his eggs prepared, he directs his attention inward, seemingly recalling how he usually takes them. He orders scrambled.

At the bar are a few strangers making idle conversation while watching last night's football highlights. I find it especially fascinating that millions of people around the world, including these three guys, are fixated on an eleven-inch piece of tanned cowhide. As I watch, one of the guys cocks his head, lost in thought. Then, as though a shock wave was traveling through his body, he rushes to capture an idea in his pocketed notepad. While he was lost in a daydream, and to the tune of football highlights, an insight struck from out of the blue. He had a eureka moment.

Or take me, sitting here with my laptop. This morning, as I sip coffee and nibble home fries, I've been able to focus more deeply on my work and have more energy to burn. My morning meditation may have helped--I find I'm able to write more words when I take part in this ritual (40 percent more, by my calculations). I left my phone at home so I could write distraction free, and so my mind could rest on the walk to the diner, and wander. As I'll discuss later, disconnecting is one of the most powerful ways to spark new and innovative ideas. The music playing on the restaurant speakers is catchy, but not enough to be distracting. I'm not here for the soundtrack, though, and also chose this diner over my favorite café because there's no wi-fi--constant connectivity is one of the worst disruptions to our focus and productivity. As the last few paragraphs demonstrate, I am a bit distracted by the environment and the people it's hosting, but they're serving as good fodder for this introduction.

This restaurant scene is a handy illustration of a revelation I had awhile back: attention is all around us. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Everyone awake on the planet, in this one moment--whether they're eating breakfast, working, or spending time with their family--is focused on something. Attention is the backdrop against which we live our lives wherever we go and whatever we do, even if we're just noticing the thoughts in our head.

It has been a few years since I first began to explore how we can not only focus better but also think more clearly. While this is tough to admit, especially as someone who was making his living as a "productivity expert," I started to notice my own increased distraction, especially as I accumulated more devices. I had never been so busy while accomplishing so little. I had grown restless with boredom and a lack of stimulation and was trying to cram as much into every moment as I could. I knew that my brain never functioned well when I was trying to multitask, but I felt compelled to do it anyway. Working with my email client open and my smartphone on my desk was simply more appealing than trying to concentrate on one or two simple things. For me, this book was born out of necessity: I wrote it because I needed it.

When I get excited by a new idea, I typically order dozens of books on it and nerd out about that topic. Focus has been my most recent fascination. This includes how we can best manage the distractions around us; multitask more effectively, if that's possible (it is); battle our resistance to focusing on tasks that make us procrastinate; and also better unfocus so that we can genuinely relax and recharge. In my reading, I found an awful lot of information--advice (often contradictory) that was fun to read but ultimately didn't help me progress my work and life forward.

I then turned to the actual scientific research--scores of academic studies and decades of documentation dedicated to learning how we best focus*. As I carefully read every study I could find, the "Focus" folder on my computer became massive. I amassed tens of thousands of words of notes and began to identify the most practical, tactical lessons from them. I started speaking to the world's foremost attention researchers to get to the bottom of why we get distracted so easily and discover how we can get our stubborn minds to focus in a world of distraction. And I started to experiment with the research myself, to see if it was actually possible to get a grip on my focus.

What I discovered completely changed not only how I work but also how I live my life. I began to see focus as not only a contributor to my productivity but also a factor in my overall well-being. Surprisingly, I learned that one of the best practices for fostering my creativity and productivity was learning how to unfocus. By paying attention to nothing in particular and letting my mind wander--as I did on my way to the Kingston diner--I found that I became better at making connections between ideas and coming up with new ones.

I also found that we encounter more distraction today than we have in the entire history of humanity. Studies show we can work for an average of just forty seconds in front of a computer before we're either distracted or interrupted. (Needless to say, we do our best work when we attend to a task for a lot longer than forty seconds.) I went from viewing multitasking as a stimulating work hack to regarding it as a trap of continuous interruptions. While trying to do more tasks simultaneously, we prevent ourselves from finishing any one task of significance. And I began to discover that by focusing deeply on just one important thing at a time--hyperfocusing--we become the most productive version of ourselves.

Above all else I began to view attention as the most important ingredient we can add if we're to become more productive, creative, and happy--at work and at home. When we invest our limited attention intelligently and deliberately, we focus more deeply and think more clearly. This is an essential skill in today's world, when we are so often in distracting environments doing brain-heavy knowledge work.

This book takes you on a guided tour through my exploration of the subject of focus. I'll share not only the fascinating things I've learned but also how to actually put those ideas to use in your own life (I've road-tested all of them). Productivity research is great--but pretty useless when you don't act upon it. In this way, I see Hyperfocus as a sort of "science-help" book; one that explores the fascinating research behind how you focus but also bridges those insights with your daily life to explore ways you can manage your attention better to become more productive and creative. These ideas have already changed one life (mine), and I know they can do the same for you too. On the surface, the results can seem a bit like magic, but magic stops being magic the moment you know how it's done.

Chapter 0.5

How to Better Focus on This Book

Reading this book is your first chance to put your focus to the test, and the more attention you can dedicate to it, the more you'll get out of the time spent on it. Let's begin on a practical note with seven ways to focus more deeply while reading.

But first, a quick comment. If I've learned one thing from my research, it's that productivity is highly personal. Everyone is uniquely wired and has different routines--as a result, not all productivity tactics will mesh comfortably with your life. Not to mention the fact that you may simply not want to follow some of the advice I offer. Experiment with as many of these focus tactics as you can, and adopt whatever works for you.

1. Put your phone out of sight

When your mind is even slightly resisting a task, it will look for more novel things to focus on. Our smartphones are a great example-they provide an endless stream of bite-sized, delicious information for our brains to consume.

As I'll discuss later, distractions and interruptions are infinitely easier to deal with before they become a temptation. Start seeing your smartphone for what it really is: a productivity black hole that sits in your pocket. To focus on this book, I recommend leaving your device in another room. It may take your brain a few minutes to adjust to not having your phone or pad attached at your hip, but trust me, it's worth powering through that initial resistance. It's never healthy to be dependent on something--addictive, shiny rectangular devices included.

Here's a fun experiment to dive deeper into this idea: over the span of a day or two, pay attention to the number of times you instinctively pull out your phone. How are you feeling, and what compels you to reach for it? Are you trying to distract yourself during a long elevator ride? Are you avoiding a boring task, like updating your quarterly budget? By noting the times you habitually reach for your phone, you'll gain insight into which tasks you resist the most and how you're feeling in those moments.

2. Mind your environment

Look up and around you: Where are you reading this book? How likely are you to be distracted or interrupted as you read, and is there a place you could go to avoid those distractions? Or are you reading in an environment where you don't have much control, such as on the train or the subway?

Modifying your environment is one of the top ways to cultivate your focus. The most focus-conducive environments are those in which you're interrupted and distracted the least. If possible, move yourself to one of these places--whether it's a café down the street, the library, or a quieter room in the house.

3. Make a distractions list

Distractions will always be present, even if you manage to find a reading spot in a Japanese Zen garden with your phone far away. External distractions aren't the only ones to blame--think of the distractions that can come internally, like your brain reminding you that you need to pick up groceries.

Whenever I have to focus, I adopt the two tactics mentioned above--and I also bring a pen and a notepad with me. In the notepad I write every distraction that makes its way into my mind--things I need to follow up on, tasks I can't forget, new ideas, and so on.

Maintaining a distractions list as you read will capture the important things that float to the surface of your consciousness. Writing them down to make sure they don't slip through the cracks will let you refocus on the task at hand.

4. Question whether this book is worth consuming at all

We consume a lot of things out of habit, without questioning their worth--books included.

Take time to weigh the value of your routine consumption. A tactic I find helpful is to view the descriptions of books, TV shows, podcasts, and everything else as "pitches" for your time and attention. Ask yourself: After consuming one of those products, will you be happy with how you invested your time and attention?

Just as you are what you eat, you are what you pay attention to. Attention is finite and is the most valuable ingredient you have to live a good life-so make sure everything you consume is worthy of it. As I'll cover in depth later, bringing awareness to what you consume can provide hours of extra time each day.

5. Consume some caffeine before reading

If it's not too late in the day--caffeine takes eight to fourteen hours to metabolize out of your system--consider reading alongside a cup of coffee or tea.

Caffeine provides an invaluable focus boost, and while you usually have to pay this energy back later in the day as the drug metabolizes out of your system, the costs are often worth it. Caffeine boosts your mental and physical performance in virtually every measurable way (more on page 207). Use this energy boost wisely to work on an important task or to read this book.

6. Grab a pen or highlighter

There are two ways to consume information: passively and actively.

One of my (many) habits that bother my fiancée is that I tear out the first page of every book I read to use as a bookmark. (She argues this is sacrilegious; I say there are more copies of the same book at the store.) This is only the start of the carnage; I also read with a highlighter and a pen in hand so I can mark up the book as I read it. The number of highlights and notes on its pages indicates how much I liked it. When I finish that first read, I go through the book a second time, rereading just the highlighted parts so I can really process the most valuable nuggets. If I can, I'll annoy someone nearby by sharing these bits so I can process them again even more deeply. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Chris Bailey ran 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 the media as diverse as the New York Times, Huffington Post, New York magazine, Harvard Business Review, TED, Fast Company and Lifehacker. The author of The Productivity Project, Chris lives in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The most productive man you could ever hope to meet (TED.com)

Extraordinary . . . eye-opening (David Allen, author of Getting Things Done)

Becoming more productive isn’t about time management; it’s about attention management. I’d tell you more about that, but I lost my train of thought. Luckily this attention-grabbing book is here to help (Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, and coauthor of Option B)

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 The $100 Startup, The Art of Non-Conformity, and The Happiness of Pursuit)

Let me guess. You’re like me. You don’t have time to read this book. Or any book! Who has time for books anymore? Well, that’s perfect. Because it means you have the disease. And right now you’re holding the cure (Neil Pasricha, author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation)

There are two kinds of focus we need in order to pursue what’s essential in life: focus as a noun (our fixed intent) and focus as a verb (the ongoing process of connecting the dots). This is brilliantly illustrated both in writing and in graphics in this latest book from Chris Bailey. I loved the book (Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism)

Practical, well written and timely (Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential)

Thanks to Chris Bailey’s groundbreaking and timely new book, I feel like I now have, for the first time in literally years, the ability to focus on the most important, value-creating things. Read this book if you want a stress-relieving salve as well as a guarantee to improve both your productivity and happiness (Jim Citrin, author of The Career Playbook)

I read Hyperfocus on my phone. . . but this book was so engaging I stopped checking email entirely! (Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours)

Being hyperfocused in a busy world is a skill every professional needs in their arsenal. Chris Bailey will show you how to master it in his new book Hyperfocus (Vanessa Van Edwards, author of Captivate) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

From the Author

Chris Bailey ran 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 the media as diverse as the New York Times, Huffington Post, New York magazine, Harvard Business Review, TED, Fast Company and Lifehacker. The author of The Productivity Project, Chris lives in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BDJ99VR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan; Main Market edition (6 September 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Ipsita G.

A useful book on productivity

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 19 December 2022

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introduces a couple of novel ideas, my pick would be scatterfocus which is allowing the mind to wander while being vaguely conscious of the ideas that it ponders over. This is most useful while solving creative problems. A big chunk of the book is dedicated to various strategies for managing and reducing distractions.

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Naresh

Focus is the soul of every achivement.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 September 2022

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I am wrote This review after reading the book. This book was awesome and easily understandable,by this book i learned way to stay focused and to remove distractions.and it will breaks many myths of our thoughts. And I realised to enjoy the every moment in the day.

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Uday Reddy

Great Supplement to Deepwork!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 March 2021

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Why read this book? –
1. Helps you improve your productivity.
2. Tells you how to procrastinate effectively.
3. Explains how to be effectively entertained.
4. Acts as a great supplement to Cal Newport’s “DEEPWORK”.
The long version -
I picked up this wondering how it could provide me with more information that 'Deepwork' by Cal Newport, already hadn't. Well, I was wrong. Both the books may seem similar as they deal with focused work but, they're two completely different books, in fact they both complement each other in a very positive way.

There are some aspects, about 10%, about this book which I found are alike to Deepwork, but the rest of the book is very different. It picks up on the work of deepwork and expands it and provides simple systems for improving your productivity.

This book has various systems to improve productivity, to ascertain the importance of a task, and a very clever way to deal with distractions. The final chapters were very interesting as they talked about how to procrastinate effectively. The way we choose to be entertained also affects our productivity.

What's new in this book, is the principle of "Scatterfocus".
It explains the way to be creative and also enjoy 'Hyperfocused' work. I've come across this topic in "A mind for numbers" by Barbara Oakley. But that topic is expanded here. The book discusses about how we need both hyperfocus and scatterfocus to feel and be productive. The book also talks about how to be productive while being distracted.

There are quite a few studies mentioned, but they are not too many, just enough to make a valid point. The book describes various steps to up your productivity game and discusses how you should effectively spend your free time. It talks about how to procrastinate productively, a topic which is quite good to read about, as I'm the kind of a person who procrastinates a lot.

All in all, this book serves as a great supplement to "Deepwork" by Cal Newport. If you want to 10x your productivity game and focus, get these two books. That's all you need to be a focused “productivist”.

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Awesome Book

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Awesome Book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 27 September 2022

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Book came on very good condition

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Narayanan

Nice but lot of content

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 September 2022

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It’s very nice. But after a certain point looks too much loaded with content. Need lot of time to really absorb and implement

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life changing book

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This is one of those books for me which Changed the way I think about life.

Scrolling social media is not your life.

And you have to make an effort to find meaning and purpose by working through it with the help of Hyperfocus, Scatterfocus and awareness of it.

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Kaamil

ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS I EVER READ!!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 15 January 2022

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I read this book page to page till the end and nothing seemed boring. Ever line in this book is interesting and gives us a new way of thinking. The writer has not only wrote tips and tricks, but also proved them through scientific explinations and experiments. Every things written in this book is really useful and reading this books gave me a new perspective of thinking. If I was asked to, I would surely recommend everyone to give this book a try.

The only reason I gave it four stars is that this book isn't an original book as the book is totally damaged and the words are misspelled at many points which is sometimes confusing.

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Cranky Spider

If you are struggling with work/life balance this is a great book for you

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 October 2018

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This is a book of two halves. The first half which concentrates on Hyperfocus is excellent. It is packed full of good thinking and practical tools that are very useful. In fact as a coach I have recommended this book to several of my clients. The second half of the book is about scatterfocus which is about developing innovative thinking. I didn't find this particularly engaging and there are much better authors on this topic. Nonetheless, the first part is so good, I would still recommend buying even if you did as I did - give up half-way through.

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Noah Joseph

This book is genius and will improve the quality and speed up your work.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 January 2020

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This is the book you didn't know you needed! This book really has changed my life. I was recommended it by a YouTuber and it did not disappoint. Chris has really nailed the concept of "hyper focus", which is really important in this modern age where we have become so unfocused by our mobile phones, work environments and just waist valuable time. It will teach you brilliant tactics for focusing on your tasks better and along the way is packed with many gems to help create a better focused life; implementing tactics such as meditation, mindfulness and how you use your technology.

This book can be helpful for anyone, wether you work in an office and feel overwhelmed by emails, or work at home and feel your mind wanders. This book will help you.

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Sesame

A really helpful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 March 2022

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I got this book after all the good reviews in a bid to try and be more organised day-to-day and it's definitely worth the read. It goes into all the temptations that cause our mind to drift and whilst we probably all know what these are it's a good reminder. I like the tips on minimising distractions and I've been putting my phone on focus mode and putting it in the drawer, which definitely helps. I've even started meditating, which has also been a good help. The scatterfocus section is super helpful as well! My only criticism is that the flow seems slightly all over the place at times but overall it's worth a read

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GOLDWINGER1500

Focus focus focus

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 December 2021

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A very interesting and well researched book on two different ways to focus and be more productive.

Definitely worth reading if you have read Chris Bailey's other works as it dives deeper into focusing.

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Aman

A must read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 February 2023

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I work from home and often find myself distracted/interrupted by the ever growing technology that surrounds me, family members around the house and internal thoughts to name a few. This book does a wonderful job at introducing you to key physiological subjects and gives a number of suggestions on how you can tame your demons and control your attention, and thus your focus.

It includes quantifiable facts, to tell a more compelling story and is written in simple language, to help communicate a complex topic. I think it’s well worth the read and even more so, in the tech evolution that we are currently experiencing.

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