There are two basic veins of thought when it comes to getting the most accomplished. The classic view is time management: keep lists, stay focused and organize your time effectively to get everything done. As a whole, time management works fairly well. However, it misses a couple key problems, such as:    Why do you […]
How to Become a Holistic Learner
Over a year ago, I wrote an article about how I have managed to ace high-school and university exams with very little studying. The article became one of the most popular articles on the website, and I’ve since written two e-books continuing the core idea: holistic learning. Since writing the initial article, and the two […]
Great Ideas are Valuable, But Extremely Hard to Recognize
Recently, Steve Pavlina wrote an article entitle, The Value of Ideas. In the article, he talks about how ideas are cheap, the real work comes in implementation. This is an area I wholeheartedly agree with, as for every 100 “idea-people” there might only be one or two that can actually bring things into reality. Ideas […]
Shortcomings Create Your Opportunities
I’m in the middle of reading The Count of Monte Cristo, when I stumbled onto an interesting paragraph. The book, for those of you who aren’t aware, is about Edmond Dantes a young man who is falsely imprisoned in a dungeon for fourteen years before escaping and plotting his revenge on the men who took […]
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