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Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity and Meditation

August 28, 2018 3 Comments

Chris Bailey - Full - The One You Feed

Chris Bailey ran a year-long productivity project where he studied and ran experiments on the subject. To date, he’s written hundreds of articles on the topic which have been published in places like the Huffington Post, The New York Times and LifeHacker. In this episode, Chris and Eric discuss his new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction and they cover many topics and techniques to improve your focus and productivity. In addition to being a lovely person, he is also a true expert on this topic and you’ll walk away with useful information, no matter how productive you are to begin with.

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In This Interview, Chris Bailey and I Discuss…

  • His new book, Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World  of Distraction
  • That what we notice is what we become
  • The state of our attention determines the state of our lives
  • The hourly awareness chime
  • How our mind gravitates to things that are any of these three things: pleasurable, threatening or novel
  • The measures he uses to determine the quality of attention: how long we can hold our focus, how long our mind wanders, how much of our time we can spend with intention
  • How we feel when we use our time well
  • The pain of using time wastefully
  • The Rule of 3 (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
  • Text Expander
  • The natural rhythm of our attention
  • Being kind to our mind
  • Our minds are built to wander
  • Approaching our wandering minds with curiosity
  • Keeping a distractions list
  • Scatter focus

Chris Bailey Links

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Tools to Find Focus and Accountability with Taylor Jacobson

February 4, 2022 1 Comment

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Taylor Jacobson is the CEO and Founder of Focusmate (www.focusmate.com), a virtual coworking community with a mission to help everyone do their best work. Thousands of people in 193 countries worldwide sit side-by-side, via video, to keep each other company, cheer each other on, and hold one another accountable. Taylor is a passionate voice on creating soulful work and workplaces and has been featured in The New Yorker, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, and more.

In this episode, Eric and Taylor discuss his company, Focusmate, along with many useful ideas for designing the life you want to live.

But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!

Taylor Jacobson and I Discuss Tools to Find Focus and Accountability and…

  • His company, Focusmate, that he started to help himself and others to become more productive
  • The importance of feeling safe in a community in helping to accomplish your goals
  • Procrastination is an expression of feeling unsafe
  • How it’s difficult to focus when you’re feeling stressed or anxious
  • How having a morning routine is grounding and signals our body we’re safe and able to get started
  • Designing a life that demands what you want to give
  • Noticing when you need to make a shift and reinvent yourself
  • The ability to focus and the correlation to our nervous system
  • Fight or flight impulses 
  • Learning to experience and release these energy forces
  • His choice to find the optimal environment to do the important inner work he desired
  • Spiritual practices and choosing and trusting your inner truth
  • Understanding that our experiences inform the gifts that we can give to the world 
  • How living in fear limits our ability to share our unique gifts

Taylor Jacobson Links:

Taylor’s Website

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Taylor Jacobson you might also enjoy these other episodes:

How to Focus and Accomplish Goals with Emily Balcetis

Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity, and Meditation

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How to Get Things Done with Charlie Gilkey

December 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Charlie Gilkey is the author of Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done. An Army veteran and near Ph.D. in philosophy, Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and change-makers take meaningful action on work matters. He’s widely cited in outlets such as Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, The Guardian, Life Hacker, and more and his work will help you discover the path from the ideas in your head to the actions you take in your daily life and how to go about getting things done.

But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!

Charlie Gilkey and I Discuss How to Get Things Done and…

  • His book, Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done
  • How kindness towards others often brings out the best in everyone
  • The Tao Te Ching
  • Focusing on your input and letting go of the results
  • We don’t just improve by thinking about things, we improve by doing them
  • Creative constipation breeds toxicity 
  • We’re either creating something or destroying something
  • We don’t do ideas, we do projects
  • How doing our best work is often really hard
  • The myth: if it’s meant to be for us, it’s supposed to be easy
  • The myth that if it doesn’t come easy for you, you shouldn’t do it
  • Doing something until you’re good enough at it to decide whether or not you want to continue doing it
  • The 5 things that get in the way of doing our best work
  • Head Trash: Doesn’t matter if a thought is true or not – it matters if we believe it or not
  • The problem with automatically believing our thoughts
  • How discipline limits decision fatigue
  • How action expresses priority

Charlie Gilkey Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Charlie Gilkey, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity, and Meditation

David Kadavy on Getting Started

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Becoming Indistractable with Nir Eyal

May 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Nir Eyal is an author whose writing on technology, psychology, and business has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, and many other renowned publications. Previously, he taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. In this episode, Nir and Eric discuss his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. 

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In This Interview, Nir Eyal and I discuss Becoming Indistractable and…

  • His book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
  • How what we pay attention to determines our quality of life
  • The importance of being in control of how you spend your time and attention in life
  • When it comes to being distracted, there are the blamers, the shamers, and the claimers
  • That the root cause of distraction is uncomfortable sensations
  • Time management is pain management
  • How you can’t stop emotions but you can respond to them
  • The 4 key steps of becoming indistractable
  • Traction and Dis-traction
  • How anything can become a distraction
  • That you can’t call something a distraction unless you know what you are distracted from
  • The tyranny of the to-do list
  • Deciding with intent when you’re going to do something
  • Timeboxing
  • Mastering our internal triggers: Learning to work with our uncomfortable emotions
  • The 3 reasons we get distracted
  • The antidote to impulsive behavior
  • Using an identity to help us become indistractable

Nir Eyal Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Nir Eyal on the Becoming Indistractible, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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James Clear Part 2

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