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Achieving HYPERFOCUS is How You Will Out-Perform 99% of People
The Top 10 Takeaways from “Hyperfocus,” by Chris Bailey
People seem to be conflicted about what’s most important to one’s quality of life — your time, or your attention.
I would argue that they complement, strengthen, and inform one another, in that you can have all the time in the world, but if you can’t focus on anything during that time, you’re not going to wind up doing anything important or meaningful at all.
The reverse is probably true as well, since you could have all the focus and the attentional space of the Dalai Lama, but if you have no time freedom, you won’t be happy with the state of your life either.
Hyperfocus is one of the better books out there (and certainly one of the most comprehensive) on focus, attention, and productivity.
It’s his follow-up to The Productivity Project, which I also enjoyed, and he explains in simple, helpful terms how to use this amazing, though limited gift of time and energy we receive each day.
As he says, what you pay attention to becomes your life, and so you have to be extremely selective about what you allow into your attentional space.
You need to ruthlessly curate your own reality, or else it’ll end up filled with other people’s…
