Tag: productivity
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Four Thousand Weeks
Author: Oliver Burkeman How do you visualize time? In minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? Months? Or Years? As a kid, I would divide my study hours into 15 minute chunks- 15 minutes to cover one page of a lesson. So if a History chapter had 8 pages, it would take me two hours to fully absorb…
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What Does A Good Day Look Like?
I often struggle with defining what a good day looks like. If you ask me off the bat- “How was your day?”, my perpetual answer is always “Eh! It could have been better”. Off late though, I have been trying to revisit my standard answer. Yes, some days are more monotonous than others and some…
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Make Time: How to focus on things that matter everyday
Book by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky. To some time is an illusion, to some it is relative, and to some it is ephemeral- but the reality is that we all have 24 hours a day. What we do with it is solely a personal choice. It can sometimes feel that we don’t have control…
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On Conscious Consumption of Content
While on a sleepover at a friend’s place, I found myself lounging on the couch on a lazy Saturday morning, watching Seinfeld on the television screen. Life seemed good and I felt no motivation to get along with my day. It made me wonder if I was giving up these blissful Saturday mornings by not…
Asra Yousuf 