How do you become completely focused towards a goal without burning yourself out? Even if your motivation for finishing a project, getting in shape or graduating summa cum laude is high, 100% focus is almost impossible to keep up. Does achievement require obsession, or is there another way? The most obvious solution to the burnout […]
Riding the Tipping Point: 6 Tips for Using Exponential Growth
If nobody can work 100 times harder than you, then how can some people earn 100, 1 000 or even a 1 000 000 times the results? The answer is that most problems don’t work on a straight line, giving the same amount of results for each hour you invest. The Stonecutter’s Dilemma is a […]
Friday Links 08-01-25
From the Web Tons of great articles in the past week: The Martini Method for Productivity – A great review of the difference between hard and soft deadlines. Plus a famous author’s method for being productive. Run Your Life Like a Fortune 500 Company – Ramit Sethi uses some great examples to point out the […]
Keeping To-Learn Lists
Most people know about to-do lists, but do you know about to-learn lists? Discover the benefits of creating one and learn how to use it properly.
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