How to Calm Your Mind offers a toolkit of accessible science-backed 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 it¿s just as important that we also
develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety we don¿t 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.
