Archive for 'Productivity' Category

Prepare 5 Days’ Breakfast in 5 Minutes

. combine oats and water, bring them to a boil, then cover and turn off the heat. Leave overnight and in the morning simply warm them up. They’ll be perfectly cooked Do this just once on Sunday night, and divide the oatmeal between five jars. You’re immediately set up for a week of breakfasts . [...]

Hacking Memory: A Lesson from the World Memory Championships

. I asked Ed Cooke, a competitor from England… when he first realized he was a savant. “Oh, I’m not a savant,” he said, chuckling. “Photographic memory?” I asked. He chuckled again. “Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn’t exist. In fact, my memory is quite average. All of us here have average memories.” “What [...]

Google Tasks & gTask- Keep Track of What you Need to do on the Go

Keep track of what you need to do with Google Tasks and gTasks for Android… Just click and type to add new tasks, set due dates or add notes, and (most satisfyingly) check them off as you’re done. Your task list stays up to date no matter how you access it. It’s a simple list [...]

Commentary: Regulation of Energy Drinks

Amelia M. Arria, PhD & Mary Claire O’Brien, MD offer their opinion on energy drink regulation in JAMA In this Commentary, we outline why regular (nonalcoholic) energy drinks might pose just as great a threat to individual and public health and safety. Energy drinks are beverages that contain modest to relatively high levels and concentrations [...]

How to Begin a Successful Day

1. Get Up On Time - I won’t say “get up early” – because we’re not all morning people. Getting up on time means setting your alarm early enough that you don’t feel rushed right at the start of your day. Often, just getting out of bed ten or fifteen minutes earlier transforms a stressed, harried morning [...]

Learning Information Faster via Connected Thinking

Scott Young discusses the 5 steps of the successful learning process and the secret to faster learning: Smart people don’t memorize things. Smart people don’t need to memorize, because they connect ideas together. Because we can form connections and recognize patterns far more effectively than we can memorize information, why not use that to learn? [...]

Sugar & Caffeine – Synergistic Brain Boost

The combination of caffeine and glucose can improve the efficiency of brain activity, according to a recent study in which functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify the neural substrate for the combined effects of these two substances. the team found that individuals who consumed caffeine and glucose in combination showed reduced brain activation [...]

Wean Yourself from Facebook

An insider’s guide to shaking the Facebook habit: 5. Target solutions to enable smarter, brighter usage of Facebook in the future. While you could quit Facebook, it’s probably far more productive, constructive, and socially useful to manage it and to put Facebook in its place in your life. Some of the positive solutions for healthy [...]

Working Efficiently in Medical School

Daniel Wood: 1. Plan your week Every minute spent on planning saves 10 minutes in execution… If you are prepared and know exactly what needs to be done, how to handle unexpected situations and what to do first, you will be a lot more efficient. 3. Batch your activities Every time you start a new [...]

The Biology of Productivity – Building a Rhythm into Your Work

Tony Schwartz of The Energy Project As every great athlete understands, the highest performance occurs when we balance work and effort with rest and renewal. The human body is hard-wired to pulse, and requires renewal at regular intervals not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally. More than 50 years ago, the pioneering sleep researcher [...]