Chris Bailey on Hyperfocus, Mental RAM and Boredom

Chris 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. Erik and Chris talked about his first book The Productivity Project during the last episode he appeared on. Chris is back to talk about his new book Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction.

In this conversation Chris talks with Erik about:

• Hyperfocus
• Scatterfocus
• Attention Residue
• Mental RAM
• Boredom

This episode is broguth to you by:

• Setapp
• Betterhelp

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