032: Experiments in Productivity with Chris Bailey

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🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Chris Bailey’s extreme commitment in productivity self-experimentation has yielded a boatload of insight into channeling your time, attention, and energy for maximum achievement. He shares the best of the best with us today. You’ll learn: What 35 hours of weekly meditation does to your productivity How to galvanize your daily attention using the rule of three The power of single-tasking and claiming the missing 47% of our attention About Chris When Chris Bailey graduated University, he received two full-time job offers, but decided to decline them both to dedicate a full year of his life to exploring his weird passion: productivity. For a full year he did anything and everything to become more productive. His work has received national and international media attention from outlets like The New York Times, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and countless others. The prestigious TED Talks blog said that he “might be the most productive man you’d ever hope to meet.” Recently, Fast Company called him a "productivity mastermind." You can read Bailey’s work at ALifeofProductivity.com. Bailey is on a mission to share the lessons of his year-long journey both with his new bestselling book, The Productivity Project, and in his lectures, where he offers insights and best practices that will help everyone from college students to CEOs accomplish more. View transcript, show notes, links, and more at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep32. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Machitis.
0:17.0	Well, I am super excited to be introducing a kindred spirit, Mr. Chris Bailey, who has just an extreme commitment to self-experiment
0:30.6	and figuring out what works best, and particularly in the area of productivity.
0:35.2	So he's got so much good stuff to share.
0:38.8	You're going to learn, one, what 35 hours of weekly meditation does to your productivity?
0:44.0	2. How to galvanize our daily attention using the rule of 3.
0:48.0	And 3, the power of single tasking and claiming the missing 47% of our attention.
0:54.0	You want to find the show notes, the transcript, the things mentioned,
0:58.0	you're going to find that awesome at your job.com slash Epp32.
1:01.0	Here's a bit about Chris.
1:02.0	When Chris Bailey graduated university, he received two full-time job offers, but decided to decline them both to dedicate a full year of his life to exploring his weird passion productivity.
1:14.0	For a full year he did anything and everything to become more productive.
1:17.0	His work has received national and international media attention from outlets like the New York Times,
1:22.0	Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and countless others.
1:25.1	The prestigious Ted Talks blog said that he, quote, might be the most productive man you'd
1:29.8	ever hope to meet, in a quote, recently fast company called him a quote productivity
1:34.4	mastermind and you can read Bailey's work at a life of productivity.com.
1:39.2	Bailey is on a mission to share the lessons of his year-long journey both with his new
1:43.5	best-selling book, The Productivity Project, and in his lectures where he offers
1:47.2	insights and best practices that will help everyone from college students to
1:50.9	CEOs accomplish more. Here's Chris.
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