Higher Process

Higher Process: The Art and Science of Personal Productivity is a book by Max Leibman that examines time management, procrastination, and self help from the perspective of psychological research. This blog will cover news about the book, provide relevant links, and continue the conversations started in the pages of the book. If you enjoyed the book, the blog will include new content along similar lines; if you happen to enjoy this blog, we recommend you buy the book!

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Effective today, Higher Process is only 99 cents! Get the book today for Amazon Kindle (or the Kindle app on iOS, Android, or Windows Phone).

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We're about a week into the blog and I realize I haven't really said much about who should buy the book (and why). 

To that end, might I recommend a free sample chapter.  It is yours for the downloading and in an unlocked PDF format.  Read at your leisure on the device of your choice. 

Featured in the sample chapter are procrastination researcher Timothy Pychyl, The Pomodoro Technique, and questions about the nature of lifehacks.  If you like this sort of thing (or don't generally like it, but enjoy the sample chapter), I recommend buying the book on Amazon.  

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Judge me (or, at least, my work).

Sales of the book have been decent, considering I'm not a name-brand author and have done very little to promote it, but one thing I would love to see more of are reviews!

If you have read Higher Process, please head over to Amazon and tell the world what you thought of it (good or bad).

(And if you haven't read it, it's still only $4.99)

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First blurb!

It's not really news, per se, since I've known for weeks (and even mentioned it on Tumblr), but I do have my first blurb for the book.  It's two words from David Allen (yes, that David Allen), which he spontaneously sent me when I shared the manuscript with him to get permission for the GTD-related content. 

Those words?  "Good stuff."

That absolutely made my day, as did David's gracious permission to use it to promote the book. 

I have one more in the works now, and once I have it they'll both go onto the digital "cover" and the Amazon page.  

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Abstract:

This presentation shows that students in different cultural contexts have different perceptions of time management and work organization. Particularly in group work scenarios, such differences can have a frustrating impact on students from other cultural contexts because e.g., expectations are not met. Being aware of such differences between the learners in a culturally heterogeneous educational scenario, educators can prevent frustration by introducing their students and providing more specific instructions.

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I am Max Leibman. This is Higher Process. Welcome.

On October 2nd, 2009, I started a weblog called Higher Process.  My idea for the site was simple:  I wanted to write about psychology and time management.  

A more broad (and accurate) summary would be something along the lines of this: I wanted to explore time management, GTD, procrastination, organization, goal-setting, and attention from the perspective of research in psychology and the social sciences.  This is something of a mouthful, so my taglines tended to return to "time management and psychology."

For over a year, I produced roughly two 800-word essays per week.  In total, I think I published something like 140 of them.  That version of the blog no longer exists, but some of the pieces were quite good.  Fifty-two of the best ones now appear in my first book, Higher Process: The Art & Science of Personal Productivity (currently just $4.99 on Amazon).  

Lately, I have felt the itch to start blogging about these topics again; this time, however, I want to take it slow, and break up the format a bit.  I will still publish the longer-form 800-to-1000-word essays, like those that make up the chapters of the book; however, I want to focus on quality, not quantity, so my goal is to publish two of these per month.  But there will be new content every week, because this time I'm not going to be a slave to form--I will publish quick links and quotes from around the web on topics that relate to Higher Process.  

This will also be the source for news about the book in the weeks and months to come (and there will be news.  Oh, yes). 

If you read and enjoyed Higher Process, the book, then welcome.  This blog will continue the conversations started in the book and the new essays I am planning will expand its contents.  If you are new to my work but find you enjoy the material here, check out Higher Process on Amazon. 

I am Max Leibman. This is Higher Process. Welcome.