Opinion | Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate (Published 2016)
NORMALLY, I would have finished this column weeks ago. But I kept putting it off because my New Year’s resolution is to procrastinate more. I guess I owe you an explanation. Sooner or later. We think of procrastination as a curse. Over 80 percent of college students are plagued by procrastination, requiring epic all-nighters to finish papers and prepare for tests. Roughly 20 percent of adults repo
Opinion | A Neurotic’s Guide to Small Talk (Published 2015)
As a lifelong neurotic, I sympathize with the daily struggle to conquer human-to-human small talk. Parties, weddings, bars, offices, public transportation: Small talk is all around us. Holiday party season makes it worse. Let this serve as a helpful guide on how to respond to simple questions from strangers and vague acquaintances alike. Q: “Hey, how’s it going?” In this instance, the speaker is s
Opinion | Addicted to Distraction (Published 2015)
ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn’t marshal the necessary focus. I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent source of pleasure, learning and solace. Now the books I regularly purchased were piling up ever high
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In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character. In his autobiography, Franklin listed his thirteen virtues as: Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution.
How to find time to read
That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliche. But one specific complaint is made especially plaintively: there’s never any time to read. A friend who works as a book editor – a man literally paid to read novels – told me the best thing about a recent gap between jobs was the chance, finally, to read some novels. Something’s amiss here; you don’t hear crane operators rave about spending their do
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How to be the most productive person in your office — and still get home by 5:30 p.m.
1) To-do lists are evil. Schedule everything. To-do lists by themselves are useless. They're just the first step. You have to assign them time on your schedule. Why? It makes you be realistic about what you can get done. It allows you to do tasks when it's efficient, not just because it's #4. Until it's on your calendar and assigned an hour, it's just a list of wishful thinking. Here's Cal: Schedu
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
December 2014 If the world were static, we could have monotonically increasing confidence in our beliefs. The more (and more varied) experience a belief survived, the less likely it would be false. Most people implicitly believe something like this about their opinions. And they're justified in doing so with opinions about things that don't change much, like human nature. But you can't trust your
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