This article was originally in my free newsletter, Learn Faster, Achieve More. One of the questions I’ve been getting asked a lot about my MIT Challenge is how can I stay focused during the long working hours? Keeping up with the pace has meant working about 10-12 hours per day. But the time needs to […]
Archives for November 2011
Does Enjoyment Trump Efficiency?
I had a conversation with a friend once who complained about his lack of success with women. Yet this same person rarely did anything social, preferring to do solo activities or hang out with the same group of friends. It may seem crazy that someone can want to change an element of their life badly, […]
Do What Others Won’t or Can’t Do
Most career-advice today deals with matching—trying to pair people’s aptitudes and passions with specific jobs. So, the advice goes, if you’re friendly, maybe you should go in sales. Good at math? Consider engineering or science. The matching paradigm here strikes me as too optimistically egalitarian. It somehow assumes that all jobs are equally desirable, but […]
Why Learn Math?
Math gets a bad reputation. It’s hard, abstract and, especially the way most professors teach it, feels completely detached from the real world. Since my MIT Challenge involves doing a lot of math (far more than programming) I thought I’d try to explain why I feel math does matter. How Useful is Calculus in the […]