Outsmart Your Brain: Unexpected Hacks to Boost Your Productivity

By Stephanie Thurrott

Productivity is a word on millions of minds. If you’re looking to get more productive, chances are you’ve already read plenty about it — but it can be hard to sort through the information that’s out there. Who can you trust? What works, and what’s just hot air?

In her audio course from Scribd Coach, Outsmart Your Brain, productivity writer Stephanie Thurrott offers a roadmap. Drawing from her background evaluating countless productivity hacks, she shares the very best tips for managing your time and maximizing your work. In Outsmart Your Brain, Thurrott offers crucial insights on time management, the power of wisely executed multitasking, analyzing your time to identify periods of peak productivity, and how to maximize your downtime. She also shares exercises along the way so you can step up your productivity game right away.

Get the best of the world’s productivity advice, only in Outsmart Your Brain: Unexpected Hacks to Boost Your Productivity from Scribd Coach.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094428871

Stephanie Thurrott

Stephanie Thurrott writes stories that make our lives better. Her work focuses on productivity, personal growth, writing, health and wellness, and the home. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Startup, MSN, Business Insider, NBC News, Today, and more. You can subscribe to her newsletter at stephaniethurrott.com/medium, or find more of her writing on Medium.

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Outsmart Your Brain

Outsmart Your Brain

Unexpected Hacks to Boost Your Productivity

Stephanie Thurrott

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Copyright © 2021 by Stephanie Thurrott

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ISBN: 9781094428871

First e-book edition: November 2021

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Introduction

Hello, and welcome to Outsmart Your Brain: Unexpected Hacks to Boost Your Productivity. I’m Stephanie Thurrott. Thanks for joining me -- let’s get started!

Productivity is a trending subject on millions of minds these days — there’s quite a lot of interest in getting more and more done in a changing world. But the sheer volume of hacks and wisdom out there associated with increasing productivity can seem overwhelming. Don’t get me wrong -- a lot of it is good stuff; but we’re all familiar with the concept of information overload. What works? What doesn’t? How can you tell?

That’s ultimately for you to decide — but in this course, I thought I would compile and share some of the best techniques that I’ve learned over the years as a writer on productivity.

I’d like to put this course into context with an example — so let’s take a moment to look at the year Taylor Swift had in 2020.

For those not familiar, Taylor Swift had a banner year in 2020, releasing two albums in the same year for the first time in her career to widespread critical acclaim, promoting her music, releasing a concert film, and doing pop star publicity work — all at the height of an unprecedented pandemic.

Now, we shouldn’t compare ourselves to Taylor Swift, who is immensely wealthy and has a team behind her to support her in her work and health. As licensed clinical psychologist Heidi Cox puts it, We all experience different levels of stress in a given situation, and have different ways of coping with stress. I’d go further to say that we all have different access to resources that can help us to manage stress, too. And, of course, it’s safe to say that how we cope with stress affects our productivity.

But the good

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I thought it was ok , expected a bit more