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  • Written by: Chris Bailey
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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  • Aleks
  • 28-06-21

Very helpull.

Loved every minute of it.
A lot of info to absorb, a lot of skills to train.
Must read with a notepad.

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  • Drew McGee
  • 02-02-23

Worth a listen

Covers a lot of ground and supports claims with stated research. Helped me get back to meditating and gave me a few instant items to pay attention to in my day-to-day routines.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 06-01-23

Excellent

This book has very actionable insights and lots of research behind it. I really liked it.

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  • Arturo Navarro Sánchez
  • 22-04-22

Hyper focus

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Creative front time

Excelent book to understand better the mind and how it Works in the subject of focusing

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  • Roxanne Smith
  • 28-09-21

Hyperfocus - great read

Great tips on how to focus more effectively and become more productive overall to achieve your goals.

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  • 05-02-19

Good advice

Mostly good sensible advice. It would be better if it referenced more research papers about the subject.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 29-05-19

Eye opening

I kept laughing at the irony in listening to this, a book about focus that I found it hard to focus on. Highlighting all the traps you typically fall into even while listening. Good advice, jokes and anecdotes - its not boring. It would be beneficial to get a little more on how to achive scatter focus.

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  • A. James
  • 02-01-19

Fantastic. Game Changer

Really good. Some Golden Nuggets in here. As always needs application in order to fully benefit

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  • Larry Reacher
  • 15-08-19

Good book, well read

I liked the first half of book most, very interesting. I tried some of the common sense tips, and used the ideas, I definitely feel
the improvement in work load I do, and more important higher quality work done by me ;-)

The explanations on how the mind processes data is super good, explains a lot and the ideas fit the theory very well..

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 22-08-21

Great insight into how our minds work

The point of any books like this is to find some insight and I am happy with finding just a few precious nuggets of helpful points. This is full of good stuff, however, becomes a little over repetitive. Calling positive thinking wishful thinking made me laugh as it misunderstands what positive thinking is. Being positive without a plan or strategy is wishful thinking. Positive thinking with a firm and detailed strategy is not wishful thinking. This was the only point that really had me shaking my head. For much of the rest I was the nodding dog. Well worth a listen.

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  • T. Sofuoglu
  • 06-03-20

Not for me

I listened until half way through the book but struggled to get excited about the ideas, finally gave up. Just feels like common sense to me.

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  • AC
  • 21-05-19

Some good tips, could have been shorter.

Lots of good tips and a great round up of research. Found it laboured many points.

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  • Mike
  • 25-10-18

Now hear this!

Informative and inspiring. Given me a thirst for more on the subject of focus and concentration.

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  • Mr Michael Adams
  • 02-06-19

Common sense sound advice

Brings a lot of clarity to the things that move us away from what we should be doing. Highly recommended.

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  • Esther Nagle
  • 10-03-19

very helpful and inspirational

really enjoyed this book. I was able to focus and listen attentively to it and learned lots that I am beginning to implement already

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  • Joshua
  • 16-01-19

Same information recycled.

You have read all of this before if you have ever read a productivity book. Read 4 hour work week instead. More on offer.

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  • Fabien
  • 13-11-18

How to organize your thoughts and productivity

I am already implementing techniques like Eisenhower quadrant system and daily tasks/goals upon my foci.

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  • Twilight
  • 18-06-19

Easy to listen, full of great advice

Everyone would benefit from this book’s advice, but if you are a little ADHD or find it difficult to focus the advice is even more important.

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  • amber-lou1990
  • 05-01-23

For erratic minds seeking tools and understanding

This book is essentially about how to organise your thoughts. This is a great book if you have an erratic mind, that doesn’t switch off and is eternally curious at the world around you!

I loved how the author explained the constructs between intelligence and creativity, saying… both intelligence and creativity involve connecting dots but in different ways. Intelligence involves connecting dots so we understand a given topic more intricately. Creativity also involves connecting dots, but in new and novel ways.

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  • Pablo Lagas
  • 15-12-22

No name on chapters

No chapter names, impossible to revisit the important parts or take notes easily for learning.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-07-19

Not a productive use of my listening time

He seems like a nice guy but he needs to respect his listeners’ time and get to the point more. Especially given the subject matter! So much repetition and meandering that I struggled to remain focused on the content. I hung on for as long as I could hoping to learn something new, but had to call it quits. Still giving it three stars as it appears there are people who do derive value from it, and who perhaps haven’t come across the same material before.

I find the slow speaking style with randomly placed word emphasis and pauses somewhat distracting, but again I think that’s just a personal thing. I think overall he’s done a reasonable job.

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  • reads:6189182
  • 26-05-19

Not a mature work, definitely for young people

First up, genuinely interested in the version of this book he writes once he's had children. Clearly this man has a lot of spare time, which none of the real adults I know has.

This book is slow and patronising if you already participate in productivity literature.

Heard a lot of positive things about Chris Bailey, but while this book wasn't necessarily a waste of time, it was twice as long as it needed to be for me. Some of his advice is nice but belabours a point and he talks about himself and his environment and what is on his desk, what he's looking at etc, to the point where it actually makes me angry, it's comes across as narcissistic which is an aspect of this genre that is unattractive, and actually kind of contradictory. Definitely comes across as being an arrogant young person himself.

If he keeps over-using the word "dots" I'm taking away some stars. Also I'm shocked he's referred to 10K hours but not the actual thesis of Eric Anderson, the actual researcher behind the concept.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-05-19

Read, re-read and read again

This is such a great book. It provides so many insights into productivity and how you can be more productive. I am through my 2nd read and I am sure I will return for a 3rd and 4th time.

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  • dee
  • 26-03-19

great!

a really good ebook if you would like to not multitask and learn how to better improve your thoughts ideas and plans

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  • Anonymous User
  • 07-03-19

Productivity is key

I loved this book, it has helped me be more productive both at home, and at work.