From the course: How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity (Book Bite)

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Chris Bailey introduces "How to Calm Your Mind"

Chris Bailey introduces "How to Calm Your Mind"

Hello everybody. My name is Chris Bailey and I am the author of the new book How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times. I'm also the author of Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction and the Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention and Energy. Most days I can be found consulting with companies on how they can become more productive and speaking to organizations on how they can become more productive without hating the process. Now, as I found firsthand a few years ago, these days we need calm more than ever before. A few years ago, I went through a period of deep burnout and anxiety myself. And after digging deep through the research, I've quickly started to think of calm as a superpower that helps us become more focused and productive. Calm leads us to become present with whatever it is that we're doing and whomever it is that were with. And this may seem like a relatively simple idea, but…

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