The Importance of Productivity in a Knowledge-Based Workforce

For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity experiments on himself. In this episode, he and Erik talk about some of the findings he had from those experiments, such as:

• Meditating for 35 hours over 7 days
• Watching 70 hours of TED Talks in a week
• Using a smartphone for only 60 minutes a day for 3 months
• Working 90 hour workweeks
• and more 

Tweetable quotes from this episode:

• [tweetable]When you bring more of yourself to what you’re doing, you can dive into it deeper and do it a lot better.[/tweetable]
• [tweetable]Intention behind your actions is like wood behind an arrow.[/tweetable]
• [tweetable]Meditation trains your attention muscle to dedicate more attention to whatever you want to do in the moment.[/tweetable]
• [tweetable]You know how you know if something’s important? If you’ve done it already.[/tweetable]
• [tweetable]Just because you feel productive, doesn’t mean you’re actually productive.[/tweetable]

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