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Chris Bailey

    Chris Bailey is an internationally recognized productivity expert. His work focuses on how to achieve more by doing less. Bailey explores the science behind productivity, sharing practical strategies to help people enhance their focus and efficiency in today's distracted world. His approach emphasizes that productivity doesn't have to mean constant hustle or hating the process.

    Hyperfocus
    How to Calm Your Mind
    The Productivity Project
    The Alchemist
    What Your Hands Have Done
    Newlywed Couple's Devotional: 52 Weeks of Everyday Scripture, Reflections, and Prayers for a God-Centered Marriage
    • 2022

      The journey to finding calm in a stressful world is explored through Chris Bailey's insights on productivity and mental well-being. After experiencing burnout, he emphasizes the importance of balancing productivity with moments of rest to foster sustainability. The book delves into how digital and analog environments impact anxiety, the role of dopamine in overstimulation, and the benefits of a "stimulation fast." Ultimately, cultivating calm enhances focus, engagement, and satisfaction, making it a crucial skill for leading a fulfilling life.

      How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
    • 2022

      How to Calm Your Mind is a practical guide on how to lead a less anxious life and become more productive in the process, from Chris Bailey, the bestselling author of Hyperfocus.

      How to Calm Your Mind
    • 2021

      Researching Virtual Play Experiences

      Visual Methods in Education Research

      • 404 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Focusing on the experiences of primary school children in a year-long after-school club, the book explores their engagement with virtual world play, particularly through Minecraft. Utilizing a unique methodological approach called 'rhizomic ethnography,' it combines text and visuals to illustrate how the children's digital community was influenced by both the game and their broader social contexts. The author highlights the emergent nature of play and provides insights valuable for researchers interested in children's play, visual methods, and multimodal research outputs.

      Researching Virtual Play Experiences
    • 2020

      52 Weeks of Newlywed Devotionals for Navigating a God-Centered Marriage Marriage is a journey of both hills and valleys, and newlyweds are just beginning this great adventure. By following God's way and making him the center of their marriage from the start, couples can avoid rockier paths and create stronger foundations. In this spiritual and practical devotional, marriage coaches Chris and Jamie Bailey speak to the particular challenges that every newlywed couple faces and provide both inspiration and guidance. Newlywed Couple's Devotional features: • 52 Weekly Devotionals that explore common issues and themes every couple experiences, such as intimacy, love, commitment, household duties, finances, and more • Everyday Scripture and Reflective Bible Studies that provide practical solutions to bringing marriages closer to God • Action-Oriented Discussion Prompts that hold couples accountable for maintaining their God-anchored vows • Weekly Prayers that are specific and relevant to the topics discussed Whether couples are just getting back from their honeymoons or renewing their vows, this timeless devotional offers essential navigation tools for finding God's purpose in marriage.

      Newlywed Couple's Devotional: 52 Weeks of Everyday Scripture, Reflections, and Prayers for a God-Centered Marriage
    • 2020

      Illustrated history of the railways of Bulgaria, fully updated to reflect changes since the first edition. As well as main line railways, the book features preservation, locos in long term storage, selected industrial railways, and the Sofia Trams and Metro.

      Railways of Bulgaria
    • 2019

      What Your Hands Have Done

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.5(29)Add rating

      Life in a close-knit fishing family on Prince Edward Island shapes the protagonist's identity, contrasting with the discontent experienced in urban Toronto. The narrative explores the deep connections to rural life, from fishing in the Atlantic to working in potato fields, highlighting the emotional weight of these experiences. Dionne Brand characterizes the work as a heartfelt tribute to the father figure, emphasizing themes of love, belonging, and the search for meaning amid life's transitions.

      What Your Hands Have Done
    • 2018

      Hyperfocus

      The New Science of Attention, Production, and Creativity

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.8(337)Add rating

      Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction.In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey - described by TED.com as 'the most productive man you could ever hope to meet' - provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes - hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode - and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.The often counter-intuitive wisdom at play includes:- How working fewer hours increases our productivity- How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy- How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier- How we do our best creative work when we're the most tired Merging neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness with practical takeaways for being more focused in our work and wider lives, Hyperfocus will help you think about and manage your attention on a daily basis.

      Hyperfocus
    • 2016

      The Productivity Project

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(7359)Add rating

      Productivity expert Chris Bailey has delved into this specialty for his whole career. After college, he took a year off to research productivity and to conduct carefully controlled and monitored productivity experiments. After that, Bailey spent ten years investigating "thousands of productivity hacks" to determine what people can do to increase their productivity and become consistently more productive. Bailey used that decade of experimentation to identify 25 effective productivity techniques. To get the most from your time and effort, getAbstract recommends checking out his insights and methods.

      The Productivity Project
    • 2000

      The Alchemist

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. schovat popis

      The Alchemist