From the Web How to Read a Book (Hint: Do it Slowly) – Blogger Brad Bollenbach posts the anti-speed reading manifesto. His thoughts are that the amount you read isn’t nearly as important as the quality of what you read and the amount of mental digestion you can offer to a new book. Despite writing […]
The Vast, Unstatable Importance of a Positive Attitude
Note from Scott: Leo Babauta, head writer of Zen Habits, has offered to provide a guest post while I’m recovering. Check out Zen Habits for more great articles like this one. Or read the other popular articles he’s written for this website, Do Less to Be More Productive and 20 Procrastination Hacks. Photo courtesy of […]
Schedule Footprints Vs. Deadline Counts: How to Hack Your Stress Levels
Note from Scott: Cal Newport, MIT graduate student, author of two books and blogger at Study Hacks has offered to help me out during the recovery from my illness by writing a guest post. You can check out his fantastic blog at: http://www.calnewport.com/blog/ or read his other popular guest post on this website, The Art […]
Where Are The Friday Links?
I’m guessing a few readers of the blog noticed there were no Friday Links yesterday. Unfortunately, since Monday evening I’ve been sick in bed. I’m hopefully in the recovery phase right now, but I’m still nowhere near 100%. Posts for the week went out without problems because I do all my writing a week in […]
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