How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation
by Chris Bailey
View on GoodreadsProductivity writer Chris Bailey's short Audible-original treatment of meditation as a productivity practice — focused on the practical effects (attention, working memory, equanimity) without metaphysical commitments.
Core ideas
- Bailey frames meditation as cognitive cross-training — the same practice that develops contemplative attention produces measurable downstream effects on focused work, working memory, and decision quality.
- The book is unusually agnostic about the spiritual claims of meditation traditions — Bailey is interested in what the practice does empirically, and the religious-philosophical scaffolding is treated as separable.
- The recommended dose (10-15 minutes daily, sustained for weeks) is the threshold most popular books understate — Bailey's case is that intermittent practice doesn't produce the cognitive benefits the literature describes.
Published2021
ReadMar 2021
