The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.
 
Chris 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. 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. Among the experiments that he tackled: 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 at 5:30 every morning for three months--all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.
 
The Productivity Project--and the lessons Chris learned--are the result of that year-long journey. Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach you:
·         slowing down to work more deliberately;
·         shrinking or eliminating the unimportant;
·         the rule of three;
·         striving for imperfection;
·         scheduling less time for important tasks;
·         the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions;
·         and the concept of productive procrastination.
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.

Chris Bailey is a Prince Edward Island fisherman with an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph. His work has appeared in UPEIArts Review, The Puritan's Town Crier, and on CBC Radio, and he has won the Milton Acorn Award for Poetry. Bailey presently works as the managing editor of Villamere, a lowbrow magazine dedicated to high-end Canadian literature.

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ISBN 13	9781101904053
ISBN 10	1101904054
Title	The Productivity Project
Author	Chris Bailey
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Crown Currency
Year published	2017-08-29
Number of pages	304
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