The Productivity Project

Chris Bailey holds a degree in business administration from Carleton University in Ottawa and is the author of hundreds of articles on productivity. His work has attracted the attention of media outlets as diverse as... New York Timesthe Huffington Post, the magazine New York, TEDa Fast Company and the Lifehacker blogTo pursue his lifelong dream, he turned down lucrative job offers and dedicated a year to an intense experiment focusing on productivity, a topic he had loved since adolescence, which led to... blog A Year of Productivitywhere he described some of his discoveries and experiments, as well as situations he went through, namely: sleeping little or not at all for weeks on end; completely cutting out caffeine and sugar; living in total isolation for ten days; using his smartphone just one hour a day for three months; gaining five kilograms of muscle mass; waking up at 5:30 am every morning for three months, all while monitoring the impact of his practices on the quality and quantity of his work. Alongside these experiments, he pursued an intense investigation with interviews with some of the world's leading experts, namely Charles Duhigg and David Allen, author of GTD - Doing things right (Current, 2015). His first book, The Productivity Project, it is published by Actual.