Chris Bailey is “the most productive man you could hope to meet” according to TED.
He joins us today to help you get focused, get productive, and get your studying DONE!
Learn how to manage your time, energy and attention so that you can breeze through your study to-do list in record time! Hello study productivity, hello freeing up more of your time for the things you want to spend it on.
Chris is the international bestselling author of two excellent books:
– The Productivity Project: Proven Ways To Become More Awesome (Get your copy at https://geni.us/productivityproject)
– Hyperfocus: How To Manage Your Attention In A World Of Distraction (Get your copy at https://geni.us/gethyperfocus)
Both come with my HIGHEST recommendations, and feature on my list of all-time best books about studying and learning.
Chris writes about productivity on his blog, ALifeOfProductivity.com, and hosts the Becoming Better Podcast, alifeofproductivity.com/becomingbetter.
Hosted by William Wadsworth, Founder & Learning Scientist at Exam Study Expert
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Memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.
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It’s a good question – I could talk at some length about my thoughts! Three ideas:
– Give yourself freedom to tackle the to-do list in the order the mood takes you – e.g. when you’re inspired to read, read; when you’re inspired to write, write. (Notwithstanding deadlines, which force you to work on a particular task to get it done on time).
– Theme days: e.g. Tuesdays are for reading, Fridays are for planning – you learn to get into the right “mood” for the different tasks. Only works if you’ve got considerable flexibility over your schedule and when the tasks need to be done.
– Can extend this principle to themed “hours”, matching your mood and energy levels through the day – e.g. doing hardest / most cognitively demanding tasks first thing in the morning when you’re freshest, writing late at night when it’s quiet, etc.
I do a combination of the above, e.g. Thursdays are my days for writing stuff for the blog – and a day I now really look forward to each week.
Thank you, William!
I enjoyed this podcast. The problem of time management worries me. I successfully make to-do lists but have a hard time doing them. Simply because I am a person of mood and can not always make myself do what I do not want to do at the moment.