Chris Bailey on Hyperfocus, Mental RAM and Boredom
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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. Erik and Chris talked about his first book The Productivity Project during the last episode he appeared on. Chris is back to talk about his new book Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction.
In this conversation Chris talks with Erik about:
- Hyperfocus
- Scatterfocus
- Attention Residue
- Mental RAM
- Boredom
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time |
| 0:15.1 | looking through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable |
| 0:21.2 | candidates fast. |
| 0:22.6 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals |
| 0:26.0 | you can't find anywhere else because even those who aren't |
| 0:28.6 | actively searching for a new job |
| 0:30.2 | might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.0 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.0 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:55.6 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
| 0:58.8 | They even just launch a feature that helps you write job descriptions, |
| 1:01.8 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.5 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. I'm host, Eric Fisher. This is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:37.0 | This week I'm excited to share with you a conversation. I wanted to revisit that I had with Chris Bailey. |
| 1:42.0 | Chris is the author of A Life of Productivity. revisit that I had with Chris Bailey. |
| 1:42.6 | Chris is the author of a life of productivity |
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