Continuous Learning How to Broaden Your Career Opportunities Even though being an expert in a specific area can lead to a successful career, it could potentially limit the number of opportunities available to you in the future. However, adjacent skills can open new doors.
Better Thinking Competing with Yourself External competition can have a negative impact on our performance. Self-competition, on the other hand, is much more productive.
Better Thinking Thinking In Maps What do road signs, flow charts, and hieroglyphs have in common? They are all maps of thought!
Mindful Productivity Six Essential Self-Management Skills Self-management includes skills that help us control various aspects of our life, including the choices we make, our reactions, and our ability to prioritize our feelings/thoughts.
Better Thinking Burnout: The Three Types and How to Cope Exhaustion, inefficiency, and cynicism are the three main elements of burnout. When we feel burned out, we do not have the emotional energy to invest ourselves into work.
Mindful Productivity The Power of the Weekly Review We make to-do lists all week, but do we ever stop to ask whether these tasks align with our goals? Every weekend, I take some time for a weekly review to self-reflect and make better decisions.
Efficient Studying Study Break Series: How to Review Your Exam Have you ever done poorly on an exam? I have. There are two ways we can respond when this happens: have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
Efficient Studying Study Break Series: How to Avoid Panicking During a Difficult Test Have you ever started a test and found the first question to be quite tough? And then you start to panic because you have no idea how to answer it? I have too.
Efficient Studying Study Break Series: Studying Is a Skill Instead of thinking about how long you should study, think about how to study. Here are some tips to help you get started.
Efficient Studying Study Break Series: Studying for Knowledge-Based Tests How should you study for classes that require you to memorize a large amount of information? This article has everything you need.
Efficient Studying Study Break Series: Resist the Urge to Cram Welcome to the Study Break Series! Over the next few weeks, I will be giving you my best study tips for your upcoming exams. This article examines when you should begin preparing for an exam.
Mindful Productivity Motivation: The Three Components Motivation is a complex topic, but the 3C Model of Motivation is a simple way to help you run a quick diagnostic and figure out why you are feeling unmotivated.
Better Thinking Think Like Jeff Bezos: The Regret Minimization Framework Years ago, Jeff Bezos needed a mental model to help him make the decision to start Amazon. How did he make the leap?
Continuous Learning The Art and Science of Note-Taking Science shows that note-taking has many benefits, even for those of us not in school. This is an effective way to be more productive and creative.
Better Thinking Create Your Calm Long-term stress is proven to be detrimental to our mental and physical health. However, the good news is that we can create our own calm and manage stress.
Mindful Productivity 15 Ways to Batch Tasks, Save Time, and Eliminate Stress Batching tasks together saves time and makes life easier, including reducing daily clutter and improving focus.
Better Thinking The Curse of Knowledge Have you had a teacher or professor who was very smart, but terrible at teaching the material? Maybe they had the curse of knowledge.
Mindful Productivity The Beginner's Guide to Notion: Start 2021 the Right Way There are a lot of apps, websites, and systems available to use, but what if one system could do it all? Fortunately, Notion does do it all. It is an all-in-one workspace where you can take notes, organize your life, manage a team, and so much more.
Continuous Learning Featured My COVID-19 Vaccine Experience I received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. This truly is a scientific breakthrough; I trust in the vaccine and its ability to prevent infection.
Better Thinking How to Sleep Smarter What if you could take a free pill that improved your productivity? What if that same pill made you feel good and improved your overall health? There might not be an actual pill, but there is an alternative: sleep.
Mindful Productivity The Only Productivity Tip You Need Give yourself time and space to work on what is important to you each day. Sounds simple, right? No one actually does it.
Better Thinking Imposter Syndrome and the Fear of Being a Fraud What is imposter syndrome? It's the idea that you have succeeded only due to luck, and not because of your talent or qualifications. This article explains the five patterns and strategies to help manage anxiety.
Book Notes Book Notes: The Productivity Project This book is about the lessons Chris Bailey learned over the course of a year running different productivity experiments. My rating: 8/10
Better Thinking A Guide to Letting Go of Stress Why exactly do we get stressed out or feel overwhelmed? The stress is not from our chaotic world, but our desire for it to be different than it is.
Better Thinking The Power of Good Questions Asking questions is a powerful tool that many of us overlook. A lot of the work we do relies on asking good questions, which is a skill that anyone can learn.
