Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-Hour Rule & What Really Separates the Best From the Rest
In 1993, Anders Ericsson arrived at the Music Academy of West Berlin to study violinists. His goal: Figure out why the best violinists are better than the rest. To this end, he asked the academy’s music professors to identify three sets of violin players.Best violinists – the most elite students who had the potential for careers as […]
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The Mere Presence of Your Phone is Killing Your Confidence, Productivity, and Your Relationships (Put it Away Already!)
Several studies have reported that US adults and teenagers check their phone up to 150 times a day, or every six to seven minutes that they’re awake. In the UK, a study showed that more than half of all adults and two-thirds of young adults and teens do not go one hour without checking their […]
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You Send 14,600 Emails Per Year – Here Are 15 Tips to Write Them Better
The average office worker sends out 40 emails each day – that’s 14,600 emails in a year. (Source) If you spend so much time crafting emails, why not learn to do it more effectively? Writing better emails helps you save time, reduces stress, anxiety, and overload, and helps you get more of what you want. Here are 15 […]
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22 Email Tips That Will Skyrocket Your Productivity
Email is a productivity nightmare. Studies show that we spend up to 28% of our workdays reading and responding to emails. We check our inboxes every five minutes or 74 times per day, on average. 70% of the time, we respond to alerts within a mere 6 seconds. As I’ve explained in great detail in our […]
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4 Ways Email is Killing Your Productivity & What You Can Do About it
Imagine a world without email. …You wake up every morning without an urge to compulsively check your inbox. …You commute to work without checking email. …You go to the toilet without checking email. …You work at the office without checking email. …You go to sleep without checking email. How much more productive would you be? How much more focused, relaxed, and […]
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The Psychology of Email: Why You Can’t Stop Checking Your Inbox and How it Stresses You Out
Our relationship with email is broken. According to a 2012 study, workers spend 28% of their work day reading and responding to email, and they check their inboxes a whopping 74 times a day. Another study found that office workers switched windows an average of 18 times each hour when they didn’t have access to email […]
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“Ultralearning” by Scott Young – Book Summary
Ultralearning by Scott H. Young teaches you how to learn things quickly and effectively, so you can improve valuable skills, acquire new knowledge, and ultimately become a better version of yourself faster. The book starts off with fascinating examples of so-called ultralearners – people who achieved remarkable learning feats in short periods of time. It then […]
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16 Quick Tips to Break Free From FB, Instagram, and Netflix Addiction and Reclaim Your Life
“We limit how much technology our kids use in the home.” Steve Jobs uttered these words in a 2010 interview with New York Times journalist Nick Bilton. This was the same Steve Jobs who had unveiled the iPad just a few months earlier – and with enthusiasm, “What this device does is extraordinary… It offers the […]
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How Addictive Technology (FB, Netflix, and Co.) is Silently Killing Your Happiness, Health, and Productivity
According to a Nielsen report, the average American spends more than 11 hours every day watching, reading, listening to, or otherwise interacting with media. Most of this time is spent watching live television (4:10), followed by smartphone use (2:22), radio (1:46), tablet use (0:47), and internet use on computer (0:39). Another statistic shows that we spend […]
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The Rise of Addictive Technology: How FB, Instagram, Netflix, and Other Tech Companies Get You Addicted to Their Services (And Why You Should Care)
In 1930, Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner came up with an experiment. He took a hungry rat and placed it in a box with a lever on one side. As the rat explored its new cage, it would accidentally hit the lever and, when it did so, a food pellet would drop on the floor. After the […]
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