Comments on: Interview with Cal Newport http://studysuccessful.com/interview-with-cal-newport/ How to be a successful student Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Become a successful student: Evaluate | Living a successful college life http://studysuccessful.com/interview-with-cal-newport/comment-page-1/#comment-3704 Become a successful student: Evaluate | Living a successful college life Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:02:59 +0000 http://studysuccessful.com/?p=656#comment-3704 [...] to come up with a plan for the next semester. So I want to study in smaller chunks, more often. On Cal Newport’s Study Hacks he stated an interesting point on the 48 hour rule. He says you need to study [...] [...] to come up with a plan for the next semester. So I want to study in smaller chunks, more often. On Cal Newport’s Study Hacks he stated an interesting point on the 48 hour rule. He says you need to study [...]

]]> By: Archan Mehta http://studysuccessful.com/interview-with-cal-newport/comment-page-1/#comment-2285 Archan Mehta Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:52:19 +0000 http://studysuccessful.com/?p=656#comment-2285 Stefan: Thanks for your decision to interview luminaries: we readers can learn from their experience. However, this interview provided me with a breather and I had to pause. We must be careful about the one-size-fits- all. That approach is based on a mechanistic way of thinking, which is an outdated model. Some people spread themselves too thin, so to say, and do just fine. They may take classes, join clubs, work-out, hold positions, be employed in a job, and the list goes on. There are people out there who thrive on such activities (although sometimes they can feel exhausted or even overwhelmed). We refer to such people sometimes as type A personalities. And let us not hasten to judge such people at all. On the otherhand, we also have people who are more laid-back about life's challenges. We should not hasten to judge such people either. The point is, find out what works best for you and pursue that line of reasoning and take it to its logical conclusion, if possible. People are complex, that's all, and for every type A you also meet type D and type H and even type Z (who lives in mom's attic till he turns 60). It depends. Stefan:

Thanks for your decision to interview luminaries: we readers can learn from their experience.

However, this interview provided me with a breather and I had to pause. We must be careful about the one-size-fits- all. That approach is based on a mechanistic way of thinking, which is an outdated model.

Some people spread themselves too thin, so to say, and do just fine. They may take classes, join clubs, work-out, hold positions, be employed in a job, and the list goes on. There are people out there who thrive on such activities (although sometimes they can feel exhausted or even overwhelmed). We refer to such people sometimes as type A personalities. And let us not hasten to judge such people at all.

On the otherhand, we also have people who are more laid-back about life’s challenges. We should not hasten to judge such people either. The point is, find out what works best for you and pursue that line of reasoning and take it to its logical conclusion, if possible. People are complex, that’s all, and for every type A you also meet type D and type H and even type Z (who lives in mom’s attic till he turns 60). It depends.

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