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Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work

The key to better results isn’t working harder. Most of us already work long hours. The problem is we don’t always work smart. We all have the same amount of time each day to invest. What …

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Focusing is an Art, Not a Science

Productivity is all the rage. People want to get more done in less time. Productivity systems abound: Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, the Seinfeld thing, etc. There’s certainly something to be said for …

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The Best way to Improve Your Performance at Almost Anything

Here are some easy tips to improve your performance at almost anything. How you practice makes a big difference. You need to think about feedback loops, deliberate practice, and working in chunks. The …

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The Ability To Focus And Make The Best Move When There Are No Good Moves

“The indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modalities for making sense of the world.” *** Decisions, where outcomes (and therefore …

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The Cookie Monster Knows More About Willpower Than You

I had no idea how much thought actually went into the programming of Sesame Street before reading Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. Willpower is important to life success and that’s why …

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The Simple Principles of Good Management

Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize laureate and polymath, offered many contributions to the world in fields such as computer science/artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, economics, and management. …

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The Myth of Multitasking: Why the Key to Better Work is Developing Forgotten Skills

Of course you can do more than one thing at once. The catch is you can’t do more more than one thing at once that requires concentration. You can walk and chew gum, but you can’t write an …

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The High Cost of Distractions

We tend to think that other people get distracted but not us. We’re different. We’re better than average. We can do more than one thing at a time and still be amazing. Not so. The …

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