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!
Posts Tagged 'SuperBetter'
How fun and games can make a better world, and a better you
Among the most common comments about people who like playing video games is that they are wasting their time. In fact, after her first TED talk, in which she argued that video games can make a better world, Jane McGonigal started receiving this comment, in this form or another, repeatedly: on your death-bed, are you really going to wish you’d spent more time playing angry birds?
Stuck and bored: tips for students
Over the course of your studies, you might reach a point where you are stuck or bored out of your mind. When this happens, you may find that you can’t focus, work efficiently, find motivation to read, work or even get out of your bed in the morning.
Living in video games and living life like a video game
I got hooked on World of Warcraft the first time I played it.
The game had been online for years when I first set foot in Azeroth in 2009. I had heard of the game of course, and was fascinated by the fact that it’s economy had expanded from game to Ebay. In China, some people worked in WOW “factories” where they played to create top-level characters that could later be sold to lazy players. I had also heard of some extreme cases in which people had gotten so addicted to it, that they stopped going to school or work for weeks or months.
The Geek Anthropologist 