Habit an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically.
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How to beat the “Too Long Didn't Read” syndrome?
A large portion of my work deals with reading research papers and textbooks which run for hundreds of pages.
However, with all the pomodoros going on, its frustrating to be reading redundant or ...
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How to control or change habits?
I don't know what I need to write here, but I am explaining everywhere what I feel and think.
Everyone has some habits that may be good or bad. But firstly I want to control or change some of my ...
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Do simple diets help our mental productivity?
I am a mathematician and so I am interested in every way possible to increase all my mental powers and abilities (memory, creativity, concentration, etc). I have tried several different diets and life ...
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Does fluctuating sleep habits decrease productivity?
Sometimes I sleep at 11, other times at 2 and 3 or 4. As a result my waking time also keeps varying everyday. Is there any decline in the productivity of a person with these kind of habits?
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Creating a habit: Pausing to review after reading an article
I've noticed that I don't retain as much as I'd like from articles that I read. I am trying to build a habit where after reading an article (when I have several open), instead of moving on to the next ...
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How to force myself to focus while reading
I am having very less concentration. Specially when I read a book or an article. I don't read a paragraph of 2 lines even. I start searching 1 or 2 words from a line and leave the rest. Definitely, It ...
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How do I become more agile in shifting between activities?
I really like being able to focus on one activity and only that for a prolonged period of time. I could spend days on end doing one type of activity as I feel that the longer I focus on it, the ...
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What can help me be happy about my work?
Before I choose to commit to a project, I'm usually very excited about it. But as soon as the commitment actually requires me to put an effort in, the excitement is partly replaced by stress or the ...
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Checking your work over and over again
When I was in college writing papers I would literally write one sentence, then go back and re-read the entire paper that I had written up to that point. I would do this over and over again.
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When changing habits, what can you do to cope with stress?
I need to change several habits but whenever I do something that is new to me, I get a little stressed. I used to have depressions and I know that CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy described in ...
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What physical actions can trigger psychological and physiological changes to be more productive?
I recently watched this TED talk about confidence which has a key point:
You can fake your body into being confident simply by doing certain actions (you literally change your physiological status ...
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How to become a proactive rather than a reactive (lazy) learner?
My whole life I have been a reactive, lazy learner. What that means is that more or less any knowledge I ever acquired came in one of the three possible manners:
Someone madated a task for whose ...
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How to focus without bad habits?
I have a terrible habit, Whenever I am deeply concentrating on something I chew my fingers, Not just a slight munch, but enough that i am splitting the skin.
The issue is that I am so focused on ...
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Does changing keystone habits really help bring bigger changes? [closed]
Keystone habits were described in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The idea is that instead of a changing the big habits in life we should focus on small seemingly inconsequential habits and work ...
