Hyperfocus
Chris Bailey spent a year experimenting on himself with productivity methods, writing daily about what worked and what failed. Hyperfocus distills the lessons into a two-mode framework. Hyperfocus is locking onto one thing with full attention. Scatterfocus is the underrated state of letting your mind wander on purpose to generate connections and creativity. Bailey gives concrete protocols for both, with a four-quadrant task framework, time-blocking instructions, and self-experimentation tactics any reader can run on their own week.
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A year of self-experimentation produces a two-mode attention framework: deliberate hyperfocus and intentional scatterfocus, each with its own concrete protocols.
Hyperfocus was written by Chris Bailey and published in 2018. Bailey is a productivity researcher whose earlier work, The Productivity Project, came out of his Year of Productivity experiment.
Hyperfocus is not specifically about ADHD, though it touches on attention regulation. The book is aimed at general readers and addresses two attention modes Chris Bailey calls hyperfocus and scatterfocus.
Hyperfocus is 256 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Hyperfocus takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Hyperfocus is a standalone novel by Chris Bailey, not part of a series.
Hyperfocus is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
