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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.

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Competing with Yourself

External competition can have a negative impact on our performance. Self-competition, on the other hand, is much more productive.

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Thinking In Maps

What do road signs, flow charts, and hieroglyphs have in common? They are all maps of thought!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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