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- Is there too much focus on working too hard? Should we radically scale back how much we expect to work? Or is that just laziness and fear in disguise?
- Stress, Not Working Too Much, Causes Burnout
- Why do you feel burned out? Is it because you're working too many hours without a break? Or is there something deeper that makes you feel awful?
- Is Ultimate Truth a Superstimulus?
- Does it make sense to ask questions about what the ultimate meaning of life is? What caused the universe? Or are these tempting puzzles that go nowhere?
- Learning How to Learn
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- Success isn't being rich, having a great body or beautiful spouse. It's showing up every day. Enjoy boring work, and the success will take care of itself.
- Should You Learn Things You Don’t Plan on Using?
- Should you try to learn as much as possible? Or focus on learning things when you have a problem to solve that might use it? See the science behind each.
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- How can you change yourself? What are the limitations to self-improvement? This essay shows you how to overcome your limiting patterns.
- Why You Cram for Exams (and How to Stop)
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- Struggling to learn something? The first step is to make sure you're spending enough time trying to learn it. Quantity is the most important factor.
- The Two Types of Mistakes
- For every decision you make, there is not just one kind of mistake you can make but two. How can make choices to avoid the risks of both types?
- The Power of Being Weak
- There is weakness in strength, power in weakness. Don't give up your hidden advantages while trying to copy those you see as more successful than you.
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- Practice is the most important part of learning. But what if you need to learn a subject without practice questions. Here are five alternatives you can use.
- Five Steps to Become a Better Writer
- How to become a better writer. Step one: write a lot. You'll never get better without practice. Step two: read a lot. Study good writers. Step three...
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- Being able to think clearly is not easy. Working memory is limited, making thinking harder. Luckily, there's a tool to expand and improve your thinking.
- What is Productivity Guilt? (And How Can You Prevent It?)
- Feel overwhelmed by all the things you need to do? Exercise, meditate, eat right, be productive! How can you avoid the guilt, without giving up on your goal
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- How important is it that the advice we follow is authentic? What if the stories behind it are false? Is it still worth following? A thought experiment.
- How to Figure Out Which Skills You Need to Learn to Improve Your Career
- Figure out which skills you need to learn to improve your career, make more money and have the job you love.
- Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools
- You're only as smart as your thinking tools. Here are twenty-five tools, drawn from different professions, you can apply to your most difficult challenges!
- How to Learn English
- Struggling to learn English? Here are three steps you can apply to learn it faster. Step one: Assess your level. Step Two: Choose the right learning task...
- How to Study for a Standardized Test
- Whether it's the MCAT, SAT, GMAT or LSAT, studying for a standardized test involves unique challenges. Follow these five steps to ace your next big exam.
- How Procrastination Can Help You Succeed
- Is procrastination your biggest weakness? Maybe you can use that weakness for good. Find out how procrastinating can help you save money and get more done.
- The Path to Happiness: Do What You Love, Not What You Like
- Too much of your time is spent doing things that don't really make you happy. Replace the things you like to pass the time with things that you truly love.
- The Overkill Approach: How to Solve the Hardest Problems You Face
- Can't seem to grow your business, make progress in your career or get in shape? You've been going about it the wrong way. Here's a strategy to try instead.
- Habit Stacking: How to Keep Up With Everything (When You Don’t Have Time)
- The things you do every day determine the quality of your life. Except sometimes it's not possible to do everything. Here's a useful workaround in two steps
- How to Enjoy Studying
- Struggling to motivate yourself to study? What if you could train yourself to enjoy studying instead? Here's four steps to learn to enjoy studying.
- Does Choice Exist?
- Does free will exist? Can we make decisions, or are all our decisions already made for us, by unconscious processes we can't control?
- Underrated Success Tactic: Actually Doing the Math
- Don't trust random opinions. Calculate the answers for yourself! Buying a home, going on a diet or choosing a business strategy--do the math first!
- Want to Learn a Language on Your Next Trip? Avoid These Six Mistakes.
- Some Thoughts on Meditation
- Interested in learning to meditate? Here are some of my experiences with the practice. Including how to meditate, and what I've done wrong in the past.
- The Nine Habits to Increase Your Energy
- Your energy levels are the basis of your success and happiness. Here are nine habits you can start today to feel more energetic in work and at home.
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- How Important is Growth?
- Games Worth Playing
- Richard Feynman on Self-Doubt and Meeting Others’ Expectations
- I’m 30
- On Keeping Your Word
- How Good Is Your Theory?
- Book Club: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (August 2018)
- What’s Your Life Strategy?
- How to Memorize a Speech
- The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Focus
- How to Be Nice (Without Being a Pushover)
- Book Club: The Wizard And The Prophet (June 2018)
- Read my articles on WeChat now!
- Seven Biographies You Should Read to Live a Better, Richer and Happier Life
- I Got Married!
- How to Learn Social Skills
- Book Club: The Selfish Gene (May 2018)
- Lesson One: What most people get wrong about effective learning
- Book Club: The Enigma of Reason (April 2018)
- How to Commit to Long-Term Goals
- The Art of Unlearning
- How to Commit to the Things You Start
- Book Club: Tao Te Ching (March 2018)
- You Probably Have Too Much Motivation
- How Successful Was the MIT Challenge?
- Book Club: The Elephant In The Brain (February 2018)
- Lesson One: How much of your career is running to stay in the same spot?
- Further Notes on “Rethinking Discipline”
- Rethinking Discipline
- Set Goals in the Middle
- Book Club: Seeing Like A State (January 2018)
- How Much Faster Can You Learn?
- What’s Next?
- Choose Your Signal Wisely
- Book Club: Godel, Escher, Bach (December 2017)
- Discovering the Meta
- Book Club: Average Is Over (November 2017)
- Know Your Competition
- Are Successful People Just Putting in More Effort?
- How Much Can You Possibly Learn?
- Is Reading Blogs Like This One Keeping You From Improving Your Life?
- Is the Brain Like a Muscle? Lessons from Debunking a Seductive, But Incorrect, Idea
- Book Club: Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes (October 2017)
- Help Me Research My Next Book
- Cultivating the Skill of Figuring Things Out
- How Ben Franklin Learned to Write Persuasively
- Book Club: Predictably Irrational (September 2017)
- Lesson One: How to finally stop feeling stressed and guilty
- Is Learning Extra Languages Worth the Hassle?
- Book Club: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (August 2017)
- I’m 29
- Why You Should Be More Extreme
- Two Kinds of Difficulty
- Book Club: Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind (July 2017)
- Lesson #1: Capital Trumps Courage
- You Should Have More Spectacular Failures
- Gri-Gri, Money and Bootstrapped Truths
- Book Club: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (June 2017)
- Do You Need Self-Discipline to Have Fun?
- How Much Do You Really Understand?
- The Essential Education: If You Had Ten Years to Learn Anything, What Would You Do?
- Multiply or Add?
- Book Club: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (June 2017)
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- Should You Listen to Music While Studying, The Pi Model and Learning How to Learn w/ Dr. Barbara Oakley
- Chaos, Ignorance and Newton’s Great Puzzle
- The most common misconception about learning
- Want to Learn History? Read Biographies, Not History Books
- The Problem of Happiness
- Flow Doesn’t Lead to Mastery
- How the Brain Changes with Expertise
- How Einstein Learned Physics
- Some Useful Distinctions When Thinking About Your Career
- Book Review: The Wisdom of Insecurity
- Simplicity Beats Nuance: Why the Wrong Answer Can Often Beat the Correct One
- Should You Set Deadlines for Your Goals?
- What’s More Productive: Counting Hours or Tasks Accomplished?
- Why Most People Get Stuck in Their Careers
- What I’ve Been Reading
- First, See the Circle
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- What if This Were Your Only Chance?
- What’s Wrong With Just Reading Book Summaries?
- The Hard, But Effective Way to Learn a New Language
- Back to China: Thoughts on Business, Culture and Language Learning in Beijing
- How is Ultralearning Different?
- Advice Reversals
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- Fluency vs Mastery: Can You Be Fluent Without Being Good?
- Should You Try Learning More Than One Thing at a Time?
- How Should I Learn Cognitive Science?
- Learning What Can’t Be Taught
- Three Strategies for Behavior Change
- Lesson #1: An Unusual Approach to Improve Your Ability to Focus
- New Ultralearning Project: Can You Learn to Draw Realistic Portraits in One Month?
- I’m 28
- The Irony of Focus: Why Doing Only One Thing Actually Lets You Do More
- How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project (Part Two)
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- Should Learning Be Hard?
- A Simple Strategy for Getting Better at Things
- The Problem with Advice
- How to Read More Books
- How Much Theory Should You Learn for Practical Skills?
- Genes and Free Will
- Should You Learn Fast or Slow?
- What I’ve Been Reading
- Top Performer is Now Open
- What We’ve Learned from Top Performer: Free Lesson Series
- Ultralearning Matters More After Graduation
- What’s the Difference Between Learning an Art and a Science?
- There Are No Hard Subjects, Only Missing Prerequisites
- Ultralearning Case Study: Learning Cognitive Science
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- With the World’s Knowledge a Click Away, We Spend Our Time Looking at Funny Pictures of Cats
- If You Had 15 Days to Learn Calculus, How Would You Do It?
- Career Planning and the Dao
- How I Became a Full-Time Blogger: Reflections on Ten Years of ScottHYoung.com
- How to Get Great Value from Information Products
- How I Choose Projects
- Are Anti-Vaxxers Rational? More Thoughts on the Power of Copying
- Is Rationality Overrated? What an 18th Century Medical Mystery Can Tell Us About the Power of Blind Copying
- At What Age is it No Longer Okay to Be Bad at Something?
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- Should You Use Deliberate Practice… Or Just Practice?
- What I’ve Been Reading
- The Bicycle Problem: How the Illusion of Explanatory Depth Tricks Your Brain
- How Much Free Will Do You Have?
- Should You Know Your IQ?
- Failures of Intensity
- Getting Better at Figuring Things Out
- What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
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- The Mathematics of Perseverance: The Formula to Help You Decide Whether to Strive or Settle
- Top Performer is Now Open
- How to Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Free, Live Webinar with Cal Newport
- If you want to be an author, don’t start writing (and other strangely useful career advice)
- When is it Good To Be a Hypocrite?
- Everyone is Trying to Sell You Something
- Here’s Some Things I’ve Changed My Mind About
- Three Ways to Fix a Stubborn Habit
- How Much Stress Do You Need for Success?
- How I’m Continuing to Learn (and Hopefully Master) Chinese
- I’m 27
- The Two Ways to Evaluate Ideas
- The Isomorphism of Ideas
- Is There Value in Ideas You Can’t Remember?
- Why Focusing Can Often Feel Lazy
- Don’t Be Afraid to Go at Your Own Pace
- Building, Searching and the Algorithm for Finding the Best Spouse
- Learning on Steroids is Open (For the Last Time)
- How to Stop Forgetting What You Read
- I Told My Friend Not to Start a Business. Here’s Why…
- Being Honest with Yourself is Hard
- You Don’t Pay Enough for Information
- How to Build Habits of Moderation
- Should You Accept Your Constraints or Try to Improve Them?
- Why the Smartest People Don’t Always Give the Best Advice: The Importance of Local Wisdom
- My New TEDx Talk: One Simple Method to Learn Any Language
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- Paradoxical Virtues
- How to Build the Habit of Finishing What You Start
- Why is it So Hard to Create Permanent Habits?
- Which Skills Should You Master?
- Be Bold, Presumptuous and Stop Caring About What Others Think
- Watch us Speak all Four Languages in Three Minutes
- Are There Books You Should Reread Every Year?
- When the Less Efficient Method Gets the Job Done Faster
- Should You Do Intense, Short-Term Projects, or Build Long-Term Habits?
- I Was Wrong About Speed Reading: Here are the Facts
- Watch Me Rap in Korean
- Why You Need Mentors (and Why You Don’t Have Them Yet)
- Should You Maintain an (Almost) Empty Reading Queue?
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- The Fear of Going Soft
- Bias is Inescapable
- Why I’m Skeptical About SRS for Conceptual Subjects
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- The Stupidity of Cutting Sleep
- How Do You Make a Good Analogy?
- Pick Three Things. Now Do Them Well
- Why do Engineers Think They’ll Be Good at Picking Stocks?
- Is it Better to Review Back or Learn Ahead?
- How I’m Maintaining the Ability to Speak Six Languages
- Why Learn “Useless” Things?
- Choose: Growth or Consistency
- Learning on Steroids is now open
- How to Increase Your Ability to Focus
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- Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without English
- I’m 26
- Seven Principles of Learning Better From Cognitive Science
- Does Speaking Another Language Change How You Think?
- Korean Halfway Update
- How Many Hours of Preparation Do You Need to Learn a Language Abroad?
- Why You’re Probably Not Working as Much as You Think You Are
- Guest Posts I’ve Done About Learning Chinese
- Learning Chinese over 3½ Months | 12-Min Documentary
- How I Plan to Learn Korean Differently than Chinese
- The Danger of Easy Skepticism
- #1000
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- How Much Harder is Learning Chinese Than Spanish?
- The Three-Step Strategy to Study Hard Without Burning Out
- Why Braintraining Games are Silly
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- Learning Portuguese Over 2 Months + 1 Week
- I Was Wrong About China: A First Two Weeks in China (and Chinese)
- My Plan for Learning Chinese Over Three Months
- Don’t Think For Yourself
- Are Blogs Better Than Books for Mastering Complex Ideas?
- Things Worth Knowing Well, Things Worth Knowing Poorly
- Things Worth Knowing, Even Poorly
- Chicken Hearts and Glass Explosions: A First Week in Brazil
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- My Spanish After Three Months
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- Should I Have Done the MIT Challenge Over 4 Years?
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- How to Learn Boring Subjects
- The 7 Most Common Learner Mistakes
- How I’m Learning Spanish
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- Why You Shouldn’t Learn a Language the Way Children Do
- The Importance of Knowing What You Know
- Thoughts on the First Week Without Speaking English
- I’m 25
- My Next Project – The Year Without English
- Learning on Steroids is now open (until August 22nd)
- Free Learn Faster 1-Week Bootcamp
- Watch Out for “Good” Ideas
- Why Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think
- How to Execute a Successful Side Project
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- How to Use Feedback
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- How Much Specialization?
- A Step-by-Step Process to Teach Yourself Anything (in a Fraction of the Time)
- Break Your Map
- Blank Slate Moments
- The Paradox of Growth: Do Habits Hurt or Help You Learn?
- How to Focus
- Which Learning Methods Actually Work?
- Catch-22s and Bootstrapping Your Life
- What Matters More: Your Network or Skills?
- Why You Should Read Textbooks
- Self-Discipline Comes First
- WordSmith – Building a Program that Plays Scrabble
- “It’s Who You Know”
- Two Types of Growth
- Flow Doesn’t Maximize Improvement
- Rethinking “Learn it Once”
- Could Obsessive Research Be the Cure for Procrastination?
- What are the Intellectual Ideas Everybody Should Know?
- Is Getting Rich Worth It?
- What I Would Change About the MIT Challenge
- The Interview Method: Why Our Assumptions About Success Are Often Wrong
- Why the Risky Options Can Sometimes Be the Safest
- Should You Pursue Your Dream, Even if You’ll Probably Fail?
- Why the Fuss Over Lectures?
- Learning on Steroids is Now Open
- Double your output (while working fewer hours)
- Free Learn Faster Bootcamp (Starts Tomorrow)
- Why Focus (not Effort) is the Key to Getting Stuff Done
- Paris Meetup and Upcoming Bootcamp
- Why You’re Lazy (and How to Fix It)
- The MIT Challenge is Complete
- One Week Left in the MIT Challenge
- Don’t Follow Your Passion
- The Beginner’s Guide to Learning to Program
- Work Less to Get More Done
- I’m 24
- Fake Wisdom
- Why Forgetting Can Be Good
- How to Lead an Interesting Life and Still Get Stuff Done
- How to Learn Really Hard Courses
- Should You Learn New Skills or Master Old Ones?
- The DIY Degree: Using Self-Education to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree in 1 Year
- TEDx – Can You Get an MIT Education for Less than $2000?
- Wanting the Right Things
- Nonconformers Need Better Social Skills
- Why Should Life Be Simple?
- The Strangeness of Everyday Things
- The Laziness Paradox: Embrace Your Weaknesses to Accomplish More
- Is Owning Your Own Business Worth It?
- Learning to Doubt
- Healthy Delusions?
- A La Carte Education
- Are Habits the Enemy of Mastery?
- Why Does Most Career Advice Suck?
- Can You Learn Faster Without School?
- Just Finish It
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- The Sex Scandal Technique: How to Achieve Any Goal, Instantly (and Party with Tim Ferriss)
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- Do Hard Things
- Look Lazy, Be Productive
- Two Types of Advice
- Thoughts on Learning a Degree, Without Going to School
- Swimming Upstream Against Your Destiny
- How to Stay Focused (Without Extra Caffeine)
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- Do What Others Won’t or Can’t Do
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- Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique
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- Why I’ve Decided to Be Wrong More Often
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- Case Studies: Help Me Write My Next Book
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- Why Self-Educated Learners Often Come Up Short
- Welcome ZenHabits Readers!
- Why Most People are Happier Working than in Their Free Time
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- Why You Should Ignore Passive Income
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- My Five Favorite Inspirational Films
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- Do You Trust Your Productivity System?
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- Why I Stopped Setting Long-Term Goals
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