Smarter Faster Better The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

Duhigg's most recent book, Smarter, Faster, Better combines old fashioned reporting and a survey of the academic literature to identify best productivity practices.

In the chapter on teams, you write at some length about the qualities of a good team, but particularly the qualities of a leader of that good team.

As I was reading Charles Duhigg's book about productivity, it's called Smarter, Faster, I had a rather unsettling realization, which I told Duhigg about.

Duhigg's new book, Smarter Faster Better Combines old-fashioned reporting And a survey of the academic literature To identify best productivity practices

In the first book, The Power of Habit Did the same for habit formation

I had assumed the second book Was sort of a continuation of the first But Duhigg sees it as the opposite

He wrote The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better, which talk about productivity, habits, and the science behind it.

one big question is how do we build the habits that force us to slow down and think more deeply about the choices we're making when thinking deeply is hardest

So for our listeners guys today, I have Charles Duhigg on the show. He is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better.

He wrote a massive best seller called the power of habit which is all about the science of habit formation and he followed that up with a book about the science of productivity called smarter faster better and his latest book is called super communicators.

He currently writes for The New Yorker, and he's the author of several bestselling books, including The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better.

His second is called Smarter Faster Better. Also a bestseller and most recently his book Super Communicators How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit in Smarter, Faster, Better.

In the book Smarter Faster Better, the secrets of being productive in life and business, one of the key concepts that I really like...is about managing how you think rather than what you think in order to transform your life.

In smarter faster better you write that the most productive people, companies, and organizations they don't merely act differently, they view the world and their choices in profoundly different ways.

The first chapter in Smarter Faster Better looks at what we know about the science of self-motivation...

In the book smarter faster better the secrets of being productive in life and business one of the key concepts that I really like and this book is about managing how you think rather than what you think in order to transform your life can you tell us the distinction between managing how we think rather than just changing what we think because it seems almost like the same thing when you read it at first.

In smarter faster better you write that the most productive people companies and organizations they don't merely act differently they view the world and their choices in profoundly different ways.

The first chapter in smarter faster better looks at what we know about the science of self motivation because we know that your ability to motivate to do hard tasks that's something that the most productive people have in spades they manage to plow through that email inbox even though it's a real drag faster than other people and the way that they do that the way that they motivate for it.