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Learning to learn: How to get better at what you do

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I've been reading the book Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. In it, he describes the kind of deliberate practice you have to do to get good at something. This is extremely important! If you're doing anything new with a learning curve, you can vastly accelerate that...

Why I Like Paper

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A reader wrote in: I read your suggestion about the 3×5 pad and it sucks! That's because I hate paper and pen note-taking. I want something that I can carry with me anywhere on my handheld and which will also prompt me, just like a personal assistant, not something...

Use An Editor!

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If you want to produce extremely high-quality work, it may be wise to find someone to help. It's hard to be objective about our own work. Almost by definition, we believe if we did it, it must be good. But yet, sometimes an objective eye can help us take our good work...

The Power of Visceral Relationships

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I'm having a conversation on Google+ about social media, and it connected up with an exercise I did today to produce a rather puzzling realization. Social media has certainly broadened who I know and how we connect. It's because of social media that I have met some of...

Give Yourself Some Slack Time

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One of the most important things that I've learned is that you can only be up to 100% efficient -  you can't get 25 hours of work done in a day.  How do you know when you're at the point of diminishing returns? We all want to believe we can add one more thing to our...