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Read by the author Chris Bailey the bestselling author of Hyperfocus

How to Calm Your Mind offers a toolkit of accessible sciencebacked strategies that reveal how the path to a less anxious life and even greater productivity runs directly through calm

When productivity expert Chris Bailey discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break

Productivity advice works and we need it now more than ever but its just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm By finding calm and overcoming anxiety we dont just feel more comfortable in our own skin we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time We build a deeper more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day and have greater mental resources at our disposal not only to do good work but also to live a good life

Among the topics How to Calm Your Mind covers are

How analogue and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in different ways
How our desire for dopamine breeds anxiety
How hidden sources of stress can be tamed by a stimulation fast
How busyness is as much a state of mind as it is an actual state of life

The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged focused and deliberate while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall In an anxious world achieving calm is the best life hack around