Advice for Students / 6: Productivity
Need a productivity boost? Getting tired of working? Can’t find your motivation? Here is a great short video about productivity from Science ASAP. Also check out this previous post about Superbetter and Unstuck!
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Stop Wasting Time Online (for 5 min) and Read an Anthropology Blog!
The Internet is a marvelous invention that has allowed people to learn fascinating new things, stay in touch with people and keep up with worldly events as soon as they happen.
Creating a bibliography or database
During the course of your studies, you will spend countless hours reading and creating bibliographies and databases for your own classes and research or for a contract. Here is some advice of to help you do the best job you can and save as much time as possible.
New Year Resolutions, Picard style
With the New Year starting, tons of people decided what their resolutions would be for this year. By now, chances are they have already forgotten what these were and have gone back to their bad habits. If not, they might do so in coming weeks. Then again, it’s possible some rare individuals will make lasting changes in their life this year. I suppose we should strive to be these individuals.
Then again, life changing resolutions are so much work to keep up with. Isn’t it possible that people see to big and sabotage their own chances of success by choosing objectives to far out of reach? Or it might simply be that despite their best intentions, they never put in the real amount of effort needed to succeed. We all wish for the best, but what we really need to do it make it so.
Celebrate celebration!
Chances are, according to where you are in the world or what you faith is, you don’t celebrate Christmas. Another holiday might take its place for you. Or, you might celebrate it differently: in Japan, it is celebrated as a couple’s holiday, much as Saint-Valentine’s day. You could also celebrate it, but without paying any attention to its religious origins.
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