Rock your spare minutes with audiobooks!

In the last post (the case study about public transport) I mentioned iPod Studying. If you didn’t read the iPod Studying article, I will give you a little summary:

Make a summary of what you need to learn.
Record your own voice with summaries of what you have to learn.
Play the recording whenever you have a spare [...]

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Productivity in public transport: A Case Study

The public transport doesn’t have to be a waste of time. Here is a case study about how to be productive in the public transport.

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The Power of the shower

Where do you get all your good ideas? And where do you lose them? If you are the same as me, in the shower. Not always though. I shower in the morning most of the times, right after I wake up. So I’m not wake enough to think. But when I’m awake for 20/30 minutes [...]

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6 reasons to throw your tv out

Throw your tv out, do it now. You are in doubt? Why, here are six reasons to throw your TV out!

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Why rewards suck: A guide to intrinsic motivation

Where does motivation come from? Business’s think you can motivate your employees with rewards, or punishments. The big CEO’s get bonuses when they do their job well, and in that way, they get motivated to do their best. Is that true? I’ve covered motivation before, but I have something to add now.

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Interview with Cal Newport

Another interview this week. I’ve previously interviewed Scott H Young and David Pierce. This week I’ve had a couple of posts about multitasking and hard focus, so I think it’s cool to share an interview with Cal Newport I had lately. Cal Newport is the author of ‘How to become a straight-A student‘ and ‘How [...]

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Premeds, change your mindset to get in medical school

Premeds, you’re gonna learn a lot. You are gonna learn a lot about chemistry, biology and even more about those two. But where premeds need to be learning about is: the human body. Learning about the human body should be fun for premeds, because hey, that is what they want to learn about eventually in [...]

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11 tips for hard focus (and multitasking)

Monday, I did a post about multitasking and hard focus, since I’ve said you needed to test them both, here are 6 tips for hard focus and only 5 for multitasking!
6 tips for hard focus

Shut down. Shut down everything around you, except what you need to do. Close Tweetdeck, close Gmail and shut your door. [...]

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Multi-tasking versus Hard Focus (or Productivity versus Comfort?)

Multitasking is a word of the past. Everybody is talking about hard focus nowadays, hard focus equals productivity according to a lot of bloggers. But how good is hard focus? Does it really work? And the more important question: Is it something you can do or is it just unnatural? Hard focus isn’t the same as comfortability..

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Interview with David Pierce

This week I’ve interviewed David Pierce! David Pierce is the author of Digitizd.com, previously The20life.com, a blog about technology! I love this blog and I can advice it to anyone who is trying to learn more about technology and want to get more out of his computer.
This is the second interview in my interview with [...]

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