From the Web Online Research Made Easier. The Road of a Student has a great entry showcasing a tech trick to make online research less painful. From the Archives Beyond Introversion and Extroversion – Given the string of posts I’ve written lately on improving social skills, I thought I’d point to an older article I […]
Friday Links 08-06-13
From the Web Worries on the Job, Not a Lack of Time, Prevent Balance – Tim Ferriss interviews Dr. Stewart Friedman. Friedman suggests that a lack of time isn’t the biggest problem to maintain healthy work and off-work lives. Instead, he argues that psychological interference, where your mind isn’t focused on what you should be […]
The Goal of Learning Everything
Recently, I wrote about my goal of learning everything. This is more than a tad ambitious, and probably impossible. Even learning a small fraction of everything can have huge benefits that ripple outwards towards every other area of life. Unfortunately, most people fall into a group I’ll call “functional” learners, and severely cut off their […]
Friday Links 08-06-06
From the Web Maintaining Not-Quite Daily Habits – Some tips from Steve Pavlina on how to keep an irregular routine. I’ve already written previously that I believe consistency is crucial for forming habits. Consistency helps for maintaining a habit, but you can become inflexible if you try to be perfectly consistent with every habit you […]
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