1. Fail productively 有成效地失败 Let's begin with the pre-test – a strategy that is perhaps best explained with an example. How do you say "thank you" in Finnish? The answer is "kiitos" – and I'm guessing that most readers who aren't Finnish won't have had any hope of answeri...
And it might sound impossible or naive to imagine that you could ever take that notion outside the high school auditorium. We spend so much time dismissing ideas as democrat or republican. Rejecting proposals because they came...
Being “productive” stops being a skill that helps you spend time on the work or projects that matter most, to an unrelenting war drum pressing you on and on and on. Luckily, you don’t have to let productivity shame take over your life. Here are five ways you can recognize the signs...
I was not content with the time I was wasting—I felt I could do more purposeful things than spend it on the Internet. If there is something I want to research on the Internet. I write it down and use that list when I have Internet access,2I’ll go to the office, the library, ...
Part of finding this seemingly elusive “sweet spot” has to do with how people spend the extra time they have, the researchers behind the new study argue.这项新研究认为，看似难以捉摸的“最佳空闲时间长度”与人们如何度过空闲时间有一定关联。They conducted several smaller online experiments. In one...
3 You can do more than one thing at a time. For example, gone are the days when you could only email one person at a time. Today, you can automate(使自动化)this process and spend your time productively elsewhere. 24/7 availability . After working for 8 to 10 hours, everyone’s bod...
We need to have a hobby for us to spend our time more productively instead of wasting time aimlessly. With hobbies, we can even find the common interest with our friends to share and enjoy together. Furthermore, we must have a healthy social life. We can improve our social life by ...
So I clicked over to Twitter —just for a quick hit, promise! I actually haven’t been spending as much time on Twitter as usual. I have been tending to spend my engagement hours on Facebook, having more conversations over there. To be honest, I was out of my Twitter rhythm. ...
Over time,anywork area will accumulate stuff—dust, junk, an over-abundance of paperclips, etc. Spend some of your downtime clearing out the clutter and re-evaluating your space. Maybe it’s time to add a new plant or find some better lighting; turn your desk a different direction or ...
Some of us love talking. We can spend many unproductive hours simply chatting away on the phone. It is not always our fault. In this mobile age, it is amazing how many people ring others at antisocial times and expect to be instantly spoken to. Even when people restrict their calling to...