Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep he cut out caffeine and sugar he lived in total isolation for 10 days he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months he gained ten pounds of muscle mass he stretched his work week to 90 hours a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months-all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.
After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried-and-tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more – and become more awesome.A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.Ĭhris 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. Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection scheduling less time for important tasks the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions and the concept of productive procrastination. This book is the result of Chris’s year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don’t). Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep cutting out caffeine and sugar taking a daily siesta living in total isolation for 10 days stretching his workweek to 90 hours and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.
After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that – experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. ‘A fun, interesting, and useful read!’ David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done
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