Measuring how well activities are done in meeting goals. Proficiency of skills, choice of skills, and ability to execute are all components here. Generally the questions will be about maximizing one's performance or ability to perform tasks.
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How can I get rid of the psychological effects of bad experiences from the past?
As a college student, I had my shares of failures in exams, courses, quite a handful of it, so much that it resulted in my one year extension in the university. With this I feel that my past failures ...
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How to calculate my personal efficiency in programming?
I want to improve my personal efficiency. How better can I calculate my personal efficiency?
I am a programmer. I want to calculate my personal efficiency in programming.
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Agile for Students
Context: I am working on adapting agile to my life as a student, I have even brought together a few other students to do standups and get feedback as might be found within agile.
From my experience ...
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Improve productivity in a non will job
I need help. I am a software engineer but i didn't opt for this career by will. I did it because of family pressure. I wanted to be a cricketer.
I have got good results in all my exams and also been ...
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Pollen or hay fever season and personal productivity
There are several weeks in each year when my productivity drops to zero because of hay fever. I basically can't think about any productive solution for this problem.
I am a programmer. It's not just ...
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Strategies for studying multiple subjects at the same time
If I want to study N different subjects what would be the best strategy to do this?
One extreme would be to take only one subject first and devote all of my free time to study it, then after I'm done ...
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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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Cultivating Patience
What is a good way of cultivating patience?
I feel that the impatience (the urge to get done with things irrespective of quality) severely hampers my productivity. I tend to have to redo the things ...
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The effect of sleep, nap & PE on personal productivity?
Most of the time, I stay up late until midnight and do things that I want to complete. However, I get 7-8 hours of sleep a day.
My normal weekday routine is as follows:
Wake up at 8am and go to work. ...
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Does breathing air with an increased percentage of oxygen make you more productive?
Does breathing air with an increased percentage of oxygen make you more productive?
If the brain requires oxygen to function properly, does that mean that breathing air with an increased level of ...
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if productivity sweet spot 40 hrs/week, do personal projects reduce our productivity
I was just reading this article http://business.time.com/2012/04/26/stop-working-more-than-40-hours-a-week
If what they are saying in this article is true, doesn't that mean that working on personal ...
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How to speak more 'clearly'?
Some people have an ability to speak their minds so clearly it can be understood from a distance, even though they're not exactly speaking louder than anyone else. On the other hand, many people are ...
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Sweeping a wet bathroom floor [closed]
I find that sweeping a bathroom floor when it is wet is very hard. When wet, dust and hairs tend to stick to the floor, making them very hard to sweep up. Furthermore, they tend to get stuck in the ...
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Do gaming peripherals (mice & keyboards) increase productivity of general computer tasks?
I've been thinking of upgrading my input devices and I'm not sure whether buying the more expensive "gaming" devices with programmable keys justifies the investment. I'm looking in particular at ...
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4answers
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What nutrition is best to stay productive throughout the day?
I read in Steve Jobs's book that he used to avoid coffee during the week and drink lots of water to remain productive and energetic throughout the day.
I would like to know what food and beverages to ...
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What computer skills are the most essential for beginners?
People come at me frequently asking questions about computers. It can be flattering at first but you know they are coming back with the most absurd questions because they don't know enough to figure ...
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How can I learn to say “no” and fight back?
I think that sometimes I accept that what other people say takes a priority over my own time or my personal choices. Also I'm not so "fighter" type. For example, suppose that if I go to rent an ...
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how to stop doing the same again and again?
I have been pondering the say “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
So the questions are:
how do you detect what things you are doing over and over ...
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How to get rid of distractions and focus on what I am reading?
I need to study hard for a month, more than 10 hours/day. The problem is, I cannot concentrate on what I'm reading more than 15 minutes. I lose concentration easily while reading. the most important ...
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4answers
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How to compare performance?
I am trying to apply pomodoro techniques in my work, and it "seems" to be good. But as someone in this site has already questioned: Maybe things is better because of my "psychic" feelings to start ...
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Do I need to find the most appropriate time to study?
At a time, I was a night owl. My family kept nagging all the time why would I stay up the whole night and go to bed when everyone else is waking up. So I changed it, as I also read articles that ...
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7answers
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How to stop being a perfectionist?
For example, until I know each and everything about a topic, I just don't feel like moving ahead, I get stuck. And I find myself getting involved in very minute details of the topic, which usually ...
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2answers
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How do I stay motivated when there's too little to get done?
Maybe odd question, but I think I have an odd productivity problem. I lose the will to finish my projects at work when I have very little to do. I am more used to fast-paced environments that keep me ...
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Long term effect of learning speed reading
A few years ago I learned to speed read, but in recent years I'm using it less and less. Maybe because it didn't bring me what it promised: same or even better comprehension and speed.
Did you get ...
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How do I speed up turning ideas into text? [closed]
When producing blog posts, even when it is only a few paragraphs, takes me a long time. Most of my time seems to be spent converting my ideas into writing. It is really hard to write something that ...
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How can I improve reading speed and comprehension?
How can I improve my reading ability? I want to increase my reading speed and comprehension.
Do you have experience in increasing your reading. What did work for you? Which approaches failed?
