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Books like Hyperfocus
The best books like Hyperfocus are Deep Work, The Productivity Project, and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is about focus, attention, productivity. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
Shares focus and attention with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - The Productivity Project
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Chris Bailey · Self-help
The Productivity Project emerged from Chris Bailey's year-long self-experiment immediately after graduating from university.
Shares attention and productivity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal · Self-help
Indistractable is Nir Eyal's argument that distraction is not a technology problem — it's a psychology problem.
Shares focus and attention with Hyperfocus.
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- Make Time
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Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky · Self-help
Make Time is a practical guide from two former Google Ventures designers who grew frustrated watching their own attention get swallowed by the default rhythms of the modern workday.
Shares focus and distraction with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Digital Minimalism
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Digital Minimalism is Cal Newport's argument that most people's relationship with smartphones and social media is not freely chosen but engineered — the product of business models that monetize attention and design interfaces for compulsion rather than value.
Shares focus and attention with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - The Distracted Mind
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Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen · Science
The Distracted Mind brings together two distinct research traditions — cognitive neuroscience and psychology of technology — to explain why modern humans find sustained attention so difficult and what can be done about it.
Shares focus and attention with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Do Less, Get More
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Shaa Wasmund · Self-help
Do Less, Get More is Shaa Wasmund's argument that most people's productivity problem is not a shortage of effort or time but an excess of wrong activity.
Shares focus and productivity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Eat That Frog!
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Brian Tracy · Self-help
Eat That Frog!
Shares focus and productivity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Keep Going
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Austin Kleon · Self-help
Keep Going is Austin Kleon's third book in his series on creative practice, following Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work.
Shares attention and creativity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Slow Productivity
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Slow Productivity is Cal Newport's argument that the dominant metric for productivity in knowledge work — visible busyness, inbox management, endless meeting attendance — is both exhausting and counterproductive, and that a more sustainable model exists.
Shares focus and productivity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - Smarter Faster Better
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Charles Duhigg · Self-help
Smarter Faster Better is Duhigg's follow-up to The Power of Habit, turning from habitual behavior to the science of productive decision-making and sustained motivation.
Shares focus and productivity with Hyperfocus.
Read the summary → - The One Thing
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Gary Keller and Jay Papasan · Self-help
The One Thing is Gary Keller's argument that extraordinary results come not from doing more things but from doing fewer things better — specifically, from identifying the single most important thing at any given time and doing that before anything else.
Shares focus and productivity with Hyperfocus.
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Books like Hyperfocus: quick answers
What are the best books like Hyperfocus?
The best books like Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey are Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hyperfocus, such as focus, attention, productivity.
What should I read after Hyperfocus?
A natural next read after Hyperfocus is Deep Work by Cal Newport. Shares focus and attention with Hyperfocus. Other strong choices are The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.
What books are similar to Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey?
Hyperfocus centers on focus, attention, productivity. Books with a similar feel include Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, The Distracted Mind by Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
