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  • How to Work Less to Achieve More
  • Written by: Chris Bailey
  • Narrated by: Chris Bailey
  • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,310 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

'The most productive man you'd ever hope to meet' – TED

Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life.

In Hyperfocus, you will learn:

  • How working fewer hours can increase our productivity
  • How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier
  • How we do our best creative work when we're the most tired

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little.

In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.

©2018 Chris Bailey (P)2018 Penguin Random House LLC

Critic Reviews

"The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics – and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!." (Chris Guillebeau, author of Side Hustle)

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Boring

The content is almost similar to other productivity books. If I summarise the book in one line, then it would be: do meditation everyday

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Last two chapters summarize it very well.

Really really good last two chapters are summarize it very well. You can just hear those two and get all out of this book.

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Very basic read: Won't recommend 6 hours.

I won't say totally useless book; you will find one good information every 45 min. Rest is just repetitive, contradictory, written just because it was asked to be written or what I mean is very mechanical, no emotion into it. It felt like a corporate project rather than someone trying to help me. The productivity jargons used were too evident.

In short: it's not worth your time.

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A new insight on how to manage our indulgences.

A good book to listen to. Narrated well, though, in a low-pitch voice. Only thing I wasn't amused by was occasional attempt at giving their own reactions through laughter.

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This Book can give some intresting iideas....

your will find many facts about your attention ...why you need to focus.....not very intrestingly but in proper manner....Narrtor speed is slow...i listened it in.1.50× speed .....somtimes you need to skip the lessons...☺️

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Repackaged observations

Uses salesman like language, to sell you common sense. May be useful if completely new to material on productivity, otherwise stay clear.

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Loved it

One of the best book I have ever read. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants solve the issue related to focusing or prioritizing your work or anything important without wandering your mind.

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My first book that I successfully completed

I am quite happy that I chose this wonderful book to be my first book to listen.😊

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didn't gain anything

The book is a verbal diarrhea revolving around hyper focus and scatter focus.Hyper focus helps to focus on one idea, scatter focus helps in solving complex tasks. I bought this book to find out how to hyperfocus.I didn't find it.

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worth investing time.

a book that really helps you to become more creative and work productively. must listen.

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