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reviewed The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Midwest Tapes) 3 stars

After earning his business degree, Chris Bailey turned down several lucrative job offers to pursue …

Some young kid tries to tell us old folks how to be more productive.

2 stars

I was pretty disappointed with this audiobook, though I probably should not be surprised by that. Usually, I prefer audiobooks that are read by the author, but Chris Bailey's voice is very grating. It's hard to take what he says seriously about how much he has to get done, when all he has to get done is write about productivity. The guy is a recent college graduate and has never had an actual job like the one's he describes. I'd like to see how productive any of these "life hacks" are once he's a few years older and managing a house full of kids.

While the book had some attempts at redeeming qualities, the little action items he adds to the end of each chapter is nice to actually get motivated to do it, however I'm not going to be able to review that whilst I'm driving. I did pick up a copy of the dead tree too in hopes of being able opt reference it, and that worked better.

The one strategy he had that worked for me was writing down ON PAPER the three things I wanted to get done today before I start my work shift.