{"id":5193,"date":"2013-10-21T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alifeofproductivity.com\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2021-12-04T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:09:00","slug":"productivity-pants-experiment-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/productivity-pants-experiment-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"For the next three weeks I’m putting on my ‘productivity pants’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Estimated Reading Time:<\/strong> 1 minute, 34s.<\/div><\/div>\n For the next three weeks I’m going to be dressing up, down, and sideways, and then measuring how what I wear affects my energy, focus, motivation, and ultimately my productivity.<\/p>\n At the end of the experiment I’m going to (of course) write about everything I learn.<\/p>\n Compared to a few other <\/b>productivity experiments<\/b><\/a><\/span> I’ve done<\/b> (like watching 70 hours of TED talks in 7 days<\/a><\/span>, and meditating for 35 hours in a week<\/a><\/span>), this experiment is downright boring<\/i><\/b>. But I have a theory: what you wear has a profound effect on how you think about yourself, and ultimately how productive you are. I’m going to put that theory to the test over the next three weeks.<\/p>\n I also have a second goal for this experiment<\/b>: I want to calculate my body’s natural rhythm over a typical day, and then experiment with ways to become more productive knowing how my energy fluctuates throughout the day.<\/p>\n For example: am I a morning owl or a night owl? And how can I\u00a0become more productive by doing more demanding activities when I have more energy?<\/p>\n Of course, even though I’ll be figuring out my<\/i> body’s natural rhythms, I’ll absolutely pass on everything I learn to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have three main three rules for this experiment:<\/p>\n I’ll of course be writing about other topics while the experiment is in progress, and you bet I’ll be posting about everything I learn after the three weeks are up<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the next three weeks I’m going to be dressing up, down, and sideways, and then measuring how what I wear affects my productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/p>\n
Here’s my plan:<\/p>\n
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