Tag: “Focus”

The person who’s in the office the longest appears to be the hardest worker, right?



The phenomenon of procrastination is, in simple words, the productivity’s worst enemy. According to Ferrari J.R., Johnson J.L., and McCown W.G. (1995) procrastination research, approximately 20% of the adults from the US are chronic procrastinators.

Productivity is not a question of how much time a day you spend working. Sometimes, a day in which you’ve worked for just three or four hours can end up being much more productive than a day in which you’ve been trying to work for more than eight. Have you ever experienced this?

Batching is a working method that has always been associated, rightfully, with high rates of personal productivity. It basically consists of grouping tasks of the same type — they require the same tools, the same preparation or the same mental state — and complete them one after the other, remaining undisturbed.

Recently I’ve been reading the book Deep Work, by Cal Newport. If you, as myself, are too a knowledge worker that regularly needs to work a lot of hours really focused in one specific task, not only to finish it, but also to get the highest possible quality result, I recommend you to read this book.