Productivity and Attention: “Hyperfocus” by Chris Bailey - BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2019
- INTRODUCTION
“Hyperfocus: how to be more productive in a world of distraction”, is Chris Bailey’s 2nd book. In The Productivity Project he experimented with the 3 ingredients of productivity: time, attention, and energy. In Hyperfocus, he zeroes in on ATTENTION with a practical “how-to” guide to improve focus.
After noticing how difficult it was for him to stay focused, Chris wanted to create an antidote to working in a world of distraction. It’s not the book he wanted to WRITE, but the book he wanted to READ!
THE BIG IDEA
Our attention is the most constrained ingredient we have to living a great life.
If you let your mind get distracted by meaningless emails, shallow social media updates, and constant alerts from your phone… you won’t be able to complete any fulfilling, important tasks.
As a result, when your time is spent mostly on “empty” tasks, you will end up feeling empty inside too. So the key to living a better life is to manage your attention deliberately.
KEY INSIGHT
It's NOT our fault that we’re distracted so often. Our brain is actually wired to focus on anything that's pleasurable, threatening, or novel. When we're bouncing around a bunch of apps on our phone, our brain gets fired up and excited.
Sadly, even if you go to an opera, you'll notice half the people fiddling with their phones. It's a beautiful experience to soak in a concert or other performance, but people choose to focus their attention on a far less meaningful activity.
KEY LESSON
So we have to work hard in order to be able to control our attention:
1. First choose a productive or meaningful object for your attention.
2. Then, eliminate potential distractions by taming what's novel around you. Maybe move your phone to another room so you can focus on reading a book.
3. And when you focus, be mindful. Your attention has a rhythm and your mind will naturally wander off. So you have to be aware of this and draw your attention back.
THE ROLE OF MEDITATION
Managing your attention only gets better with practice. And a great way to practice is to meditate. Because that’s what meditation is all about. Sitting still and focusing on a very mundane thing like your breath. Your mind will soon get bored and wander off, over and over.
But as you heighten your awareness of your mind’s wandering, you can control it. And you can bring your attention back to your breath. After a while, you’ll start noticing the benefits: you should be able to stay focused on meaningful tasks more easily, and control your attention for longer.
CONCLUSION
You will benefit the most simply by actively choosing what you focus on. Don’t let yourself react to the emails pouring into your inbox. We all spend too much time on autopilot mode, where we simply react to whatever’s coming our way. But our attention is really worth managing deliberately, for a more productive AND better life!
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love the style, love the illustrations, love the font, love the crisp takeaways, love that it is a short one, love the video
I really love the content and the way you put things together. I highly appreciate this.
I want that beutiful book!!😍 Please give me the pdf of what you have written!😀
Loved the crisp presentation. Thanks
Wow! Wonderfully summarized.
Thank you 🌻
Thanks for this summary!
Excellent. Engaging and excellent graphics.
I loved it good job. It was an amazing content.
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This is amazing! I’m reading the book right now and you couldn’t have visualised it better! 😍💯
Nice, basically meditate!
amazing work!
Excellent video,mate!
I love your drawings, and they look great. I wonder if you ever thought of scanning them and share it on your website?
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Great video, first, interesting content in itself. Second, I absolutely adore your style, you gave me an idea to try. I struggle with color matching, and I see you combine contrasting colors like orange and blue, and I noticed that I'd take one color or two similar colors. Thank you for this simple idea)
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Very good
Hey, great video. I wanted to know which pens were used in the making of this video?
Looks super cool :)
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I feel like the harder i try to focus on what i need to do the more distracted i get
wow what a short explanation
give this notebook to me please
no empty tasks
great animation, but some of us actually live with Hyperfocus being non-neural typical. Maybe this person who wrote the book suffered from ADHD? or ADD?
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How do you make these videos?
With a camera.
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The video is distracting me from the voiceover
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Horrible summary. I have read the book and this summary doesn’t cover the most important points like scattered attention etc Just a click bait video
Unfortunately the refocus method doesn't work, saying it's hard or need meditation is a disclaimer.
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Animation is good but the voice over and music is not complementing maybe some other music could have suit better
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You forgot the most important thing in the book!