A review by muthul
Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction, by Chris Bailey
5.0
I took up reading self help books as a part of my birthday resolution last November. I have started many books, but none of them were able to hold my attention long enough, for me to finish the book. This book, aptly dealing with attention space, was up for the task.
Short Summary :
This book can be separated into three parts. The first part has two chapters, Chapter 1 deals with the autopilot mode and why does our brain wander off into this productivity blackhole. And Chapter 2 deals with attention space and the science behind it.
Part 2 is about HyperFocus. And this being the longest and the best part of the book, does justice to its name. This part starts with explaining what is hyper focus and the steps to achieve hyper focus. A short summary of the steps would be :
1. Setting Intentions
2. Removing Distrations
3. Focus
4. Refocus, when your mind wanders away.
What follows is a practical session of tips/ideas that can help you achieve each of the above steps. I really loved the way this part of the book was written, with practical information and real life incidents, especially for working professionals.
The Final Part is about scatter focus. I kind of got pissed of when the author jumped ship and started talking about scatter focus. I just wanted the previous part to either go on or the book to end there. But the author proved me wrong when we went further into this part. This part explains in detail about scatter focus, how is it different from random mind wanderings and why is it of as beneficial as hyper focus. If hyper focus helps us to be more productive, scatter focus can help us to be more creative.
In the last chapter, the author does his best to wrap this neat little bundle of knowledge with insights into happiness, and how happiness affects our productivity and creativity.
So that was the short summary of the book. Now there were many small information placed strategically all through out the book to help us follow the guideline mentioned in the book. for example all of us have read about how to consume information from books, but seldom follow it. Here at the beginning of the book the author drops this information which kind of pushed me into start taking notes for each chapter, which in turn helped me to start following the ideas given in the book.
So what can this book help you with? i set three goals at the start of the book, they are :
Spend more time intentionally.
Hold focus longer in one sitting .
Catch my mind faster when it wanders away.
This book already helped me to improve in the three goals i set and much much more.
Definitely would recommend this!
Short Summary :
This book can be separated into three parts. The first part has two chapters, Chapter 1 deals with the autopilot mode and why does our brain wander off into this productivity blackhole. And Chapter 2 deals with attention space and the science behind it.
Part 2 is about HyperFocus. And this being the longest and the best part of the book, does justice to its name. This part starts with explaining what is hyper focus and the steps to achieve hyper focus. A short summary of the steps would be :
1. Setting Intentions
2. Removing Distrations
3. Focus
4. Refocus, when your mind wanders away.
What follows is a practical session of tips/ideas that can help you achieve each of the above steps. I really loved the way this part of the book was written, with practical information and real life incidents, especially for working professionals.
The Final Part is about scatter focus. I kind of got pissed of when the author jumped ship and started talking about scatter focus. I just wanted the previous part to either go on or the book to end there. But the author proved me wrong when we went further into this part. This part explains in detail about scatter focus, how is it different from random mind wanderings and why is it of as beneficial as hyper focus. If hyper focus helps us to be more productive, scatter focus can help us to be more creative.
In the last chapter, the author does his best to wrap this neat little bundle of knowledge with insights into happiness, and how happiness affects our productivity and creativity.
So that was the short summary of the book. Now there were many small information placed strategically all through out the book to help us follow the guideline mentioned in the book. for example all of us have read about how to consume information from books, but seldom follow it. Here at the beginning of the book the author drops this information which kind of pushed me into start taking notes for each chapter, which in turn helped me to start following the ideas given in the book.
So what can this book help you with? i set three goals at the start of the book, they are :
Spend more time intentionally.
Hold focus longer in one sitting .
Catch my mind faster when it wanders away.
This book already helped me to improve in the three goals i set and much much more.
Definitely would recommend this!