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Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
A Career Crossroads In the early winter of 2004, I was a senior at Dartmouth College and in the fortunate position of having two good ... Read more
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On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens
I recently received a message from a friend of mine, a young man named Mike. He told me that Digital Minimalism had changed his life. ... Read more
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The Procrastinating Caveman: Human Evolution and Procrastination
Survivor: Paleolithic Edition Rewind time 100,000 years ago: several different species of humans co-exist on earth.There was, of course, our own species, Homo sapien, but ... Read more
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Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types
By his last year at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton, 26-years old at the time, knew he didn’t want to pursue a medical career, so ... Read more
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“Write Every Day” Is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects
A Flawed Axiom Write every day. If you’ve ever considered professional writing, you’ve heard this advice. Stephen King recommends it in his instructional memoir, On ... Read more
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Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months
E-mail Zero Redux Two weeks ago, I introduced E-mail Zero, the concept of living life with no e-mail. The motivation was to investigate innovative ways ... Read more
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How Professional Writers Write
[UPDATE: 2/18/08] Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do ... Read more
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Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great
What Makes Great Scientists Great? In March of 1986, an overflow audience of over 200 researchers and staff members from Bell Laboratories piled into the ... Read more
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The Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness
Steve and David Let’s try a simple experiment. Imagine that you’re an admissions officer at a competitive college, and you’re evaluating the following two applicants: ... Read more
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How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night
I Have all the Time in the World… Last weekend, I sat down for a cup of coffee with Jake from College Chronicles fame. We ... Read more
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Focus Hard. In Reasonable Bursts. One Day at a Time.
Dissertation Hell Writing a doctoral dissertation is a peculiar endeavor. There’s a general understanding, suspended out there in the stress-fraught ether of graduate student life, ... Read more
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Fixed-Schedule Productivity, what is it?
My Schedule Should Be Terrible… I should have an overwhelming, Malox-guzzling, stress-saturated schedule. Here’s why: I’m a graduate student in a demanding program. I’m working ... Read more
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If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
The Courage Fallacy In 2005, Lisa Feuer quit her marketing job. She had held this same position throughout her 30s before deciding, at the age of ... Read more
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The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less
Einstein’s Push Between the years 1912 to 1915, Albert Einstein was a focused man. His previous work on the special theory of relativity and the ... Read more