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Oct 2021
15m 48s

How to Become the Most Productive Versio...

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Chris Bailey, productivity expert and author of The Productivity Project, joins us to chat about what productivity is and how we can become the most productive.

Today, Bailey shares his journey into studying productivity and what causes us not to be the most productive. We discuss attention spans, novelty bias, and how technology affects our productivity.

We talk about:

  • How Bailey got into studying productivity
  • Bailey’s experiments
  • What is productivity
  • Attention span
  • Attention and technology
  • How to avoid novelty bias
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