How to Form Good Habits (and Cut Bad Ones) for Better Productivity

For anyone striving to become more productive in the digital age, there are some long-trusted tactics they’ll inevitably encounter: conserving willpower, working to find motivation, an endless variety of productivity “hacks” and apps. But these things aren’t the key to truly getting more done. Most of what drives your output is not the result of […]

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Smartphone Addiction: Causes and How to Break the Cycle

In our article series on increasing your productivity, we’ve discussed topics like setting better goals and getting into a flow state. But in order to truly assess our productivity today, we need to grapple with one particular piece of equipment that promises to make our lives easier but in reality causes all sorts of new […]

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What is a Flow State and How Do I Achieve It for Peak Productivity?

ivity, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the allure of shiny new tools like apps, browser plugins, and the like that all promise major results. But in order to achieve significant and lasting behavioral change, you need to start within. And today’s article will outline a particular state of mind you can achieve in order […]

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Goals vs. Aspirations: What’s the Difference?

In our recent article on how to set better goals to make you more productive, we talked a little bit about goals vs. aspirations. Identifying your larger desires as well as your immediate next steps to get there are especially important in today’s environment where distractions lurk everywhere. But how do we consider these two […]

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How to Set Better Goals That Will Make You More Productive

With distractions everywhere these days–from browser tabs to phone notifications–it can seem challenging if not impossible to actually get major things done. So how can we be more productive in the digital age? One of the best things you can do to increase your productivity is to adjust the way you set your goals so […]

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How I Use It: Advantages of Google Inbox

When discussing the pros and cons of email as a communication medium, we typically start with some fundamental assumptions. An email inbox is a long chronological archive of messages. Messages are either read or unread, and after reading you can keep them in your archive or delete them. Over the years, our email experience has […]

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Continuous Partial Attention on the Social Web: Beneficial or Dangerous?

In today’s environment of constant connectivity, we routinely slog through multiple tasks in a single session. Blinking notifications pull us away from whatever we had been doing to something more pressing. We surf the web by opening up multiple browser tabs and scrolling back and forth between various articles, email accounts, social media streams and other types […]

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Can Our Mobile Devices Enhance, Not Distract Us From, Our Surroundings?

Recently, we looked at location-based mobile apps and their ability to allow us to interact with our surrounding environment. Examples of this trend include “checking in” to a business, finding other people nearby or redeeming a special deal. Beyond possible issues with surveillance and ad targeting, this business of walking around using our smartphones raises another crucial […]

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How to Be a Good Monotasker: Rejecting the Pull of Multitasking

Multitasking has become a way of life and is often believed to be a great strategy to get more done in less time, especially when aided by new technological tools. But a growing body of research is showing that multitasking is in most cases a myth or a delusion that we harbor. The vast majority […]

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What Are the Best Free Websites for Learning and Productivity?

Q: What are some of the best free online resources for education and productivity? (If you came from the eBook and have a website to suggest, skip ahead to the comments!) Today, there are tons of fascinating knowledge collections available for free on the open web. You can learn all about a new subject, acquire […]

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