Tranquility du Jour #603: How to Calm Your Mind
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Chris Bailey about his new book How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times.
Learn how to be a bouncer for your mind, what a novelty bias is, the opposite of calm, how striving can make us less productive, and more.
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Our Guest: Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey is an author and lecturer who explores the science behind living a deeper, more intentional life. He is the international bestselling author of How to Calm Your Mind, Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project—which have been published in 35 languages around the world. He is also the author of the Audible Original, How to Train Your Mind. Alongside his wife, Chris is the host of the podcast Time and Attention, and writes a weekly column at ChrisBailey.com, which is read by tens of thousands of people every week. In addition to his writing, Chris speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive, without hating the process. His latest TED Talk, How to Get Your Brain to Focus, has been viewed over 13 million times.
To date, Chris has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity, and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, HuffPost, New York magazine, Harvard Business Review, TED, Fast Company, and Lifehacker. In an interview, the prestigious TED Talks organization said that he "might be the most productive man you'd ever hope to meet", and the Harvard Business Review called him "a quirky and energetic guide through the productivity thicket". Recently, Wired Magazine called him an "all-around productivity guru," and Fast Company called him a "productivity mastermind."
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Twitter: @Chris_Bailey
IG: @chrisbaileyauth
Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/chrbailey
Books: chrisbailey.com/books/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, |
| 0:08.8 | nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility. |
| 0:14.7 | This is episode 603, and I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this medium since |
| 0:23.7 | 2005. |
| 0:26.2 | I always love to say that because it's just a little shocking to me. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm like, 2005 is so long ago. |
| 0:33.7 | And my goodness. |
| 0:34.9 | So, yeah, I'm like, I can never do math very quickly, but I'm like, that |
| 0:39.2 | is just, it's a long time. |
| 0:41.4 | And it's just so funny because podcasts are so common now. |
| 0:45.8 | And I remember I used to have to describe. |
| 0:48.0 | So a podcast is like a radio show that you listen to on the internet. |
| 0:53.2 | Anyway, just always makes me giggle when I'm giving |
| 0:55.3 | the number because I'm like, what? Anyway, I am so happy to be here with you today because this |
| 1:00.7 | podcast interview was truly one of my favorites. It was so much fun to interview Chris Bailey, |
| 1:06.8 | who is an author, about his new book, How to Calm Your Mind, Finding Presence and Productivity in |
| 1:15.7 | Anxious Times. Let me just tell you, I mean, don't we all need a little dose of this? And what I |
| 1:22.2 | really appreciate about it is this idea of still, you know, seeking productivity, but also recognize we need to be |
| 1:31.0 | present. And it's just a beautiful blend. So in this interview, you're going to learn how to be a |
| 1:38.6 | bouncer for your mind, which I just loved that concept. I'd never heard that. What a novelty bias is, again, had |
| 1:45.9 | never heard that. Of course, we all know about the negativity bias, which is that we are wired |
| 1:50.7 | to notice what is wrong. But novelty bias, I thought was really interesting, enlightening. |
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