247: Chris Bailey | Hyperfocus Secrets for Better Productivity

Chris Bailey (@chris_bailey) is a productivity expert, host of the Becoming Better Podcast, and the bestselling author of two books about productivity: Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. In the time it's taken you to read this, he's probably written another.
What We Discuss with Chris Bailey: The neurochemical reason our brains switch focus every 40 seconds (or less) and what we can do to recapture this hit to our overall productivity.
Why giving yourself the time to unfocus productively with what Chris calls scatterfocus is as crucial to your progress as hyperfocus.
How Chris harnesses scatterfocus to mull over and solve complicated problems without distraction.
What Chris learned by deliberately allowing himself to enter a state of boredom for an hour a day for an entire month (and how he did so creatively).
What the attention overload gap is, the problems it can cause, and why we're more susceptible to it than we probably suspect.
And much more...
Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/247
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