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Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote over 216,000 words on the subject of productivity on his blog, A Year of Productivity, during a yearlong productivity project where he conducted intensive research, as well as dozens of productivity experiments on himself to discover how to become as productive as possible. To date, he has written hundreds of articles on the subject and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as the New York Times, the Huffington Post, New York magazine, TED, Fast Company, and Lifehacker.

Books by Chris Bailey

Forecast: Pretty Bleak

Entrena tu mente

How to Calm Your Mind

How to Train Your Mind

What Your Hands Have Done

The Productivity Project