Fast Focus (Damon Zahariades)

Fast Focus: A Quick-Start Guide To Mastering Your Attention, Ignoring Distractions, And Getting More Done In Less Time!
Damon Zahariades
Amazon Digital Services
Nonfiction, Organization
**** (Good)

DESCRIPTION: You know how it goes: you have a hundred things to do, but somehow they never get done... and by the next day you have a hundred more to add to the list. You try multitasking to get more accomplished with the little time you have, but only end up making more mistakes and taking even longer to fix them. Then you finally do get into the zone, but a phone call interrupts you, or the doorbell rings, or that chatty co-worker swings by your desk. Author and productivity expert Damon Zahariades examines the common pitfalls that keep us distracted and disorganized, and offers tactics to counter them.

REVIEW: Like many people, I often have productivity issues, in that I'm not productive at all; indeed, I'm often sufficiently counterproductive to undo whatever progress I manage to make, and then some. As the title promises, this is a quick-reading book, offering tips and tricks that can be adapted to most situations. Some are similar to those I learned in an online Lynda course, but some are new to me, and Zahariades delivers the information in short chapters, easy language, and simple steps that one can start even as one reads. (Not literally, though; like other productivity gurus, he debunks the notion that multitasking is a thing, or at least an effective thing, as the human brain - despite what it likes to think - can't really do two tasks at once and do both well.) It closes out with a bonus section on keeping one's focus when working in public places, like a coffee shop. I learned a few tips here, though whether I have the self-discipline required to break bad productivity habits and replace them with healthier ones remains to be seen; as usual, it looks easy when other people write about doing it.

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