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How To Concentrate Your Efforts

June 10, 2009 · 7 comments

in achievement, discipline, productivity, psychology, success

It’s one of the last weeks of an academic term, and I’ve got three two large papers still left to process.  A total of about 65-80 pages (plus footnotes and bibliographies) that need to be written (not counting the pages of research that need to be read).  Deadlines are looming like a gun to my [...]

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Everything Wants Your Attention, But Where You Direct It Is One Of The Few Things You Can Control

June 3, 2009 · 10 comments

in achievement, lifehack, lifestyle design, psychology, success

It was bad enough when all we had to worry about tuning out were traffic jams, television sets, commercials, ringing telephones and doorbells.  Sometime over the last ten years, though, gradually, we gained an additional set of layers of “noise” to deal with: the public cellphone conversation, the instant message, flashing ads in our elevators [...]

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