Prerequisites

Prerequisites

If you have been following the last 10 lessons, you know by now that in the early summer, I set out to a) learn what I could about productivity and b) become more organized. Summer, for a professor, is a natural pause in the rhythm of life. I still teach a couple of...
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Supercharge Your Morning

In the last lesson, we talked about daily rituals. In this lesson, we will talk about morning rituals that help daily rituals function more smoothly. I will provide a model of uber-focus that will help you supercharge your day. What I’m about to describe comes from...
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Daily Habits

In the last lesson (before we were interrupted), we were talking about morning rituals. I recently read a book entitled Daily Rituals, by Mason Curry. Curry cataloged the daily habits of more than 150 famous artists, thinkers, writers, painters, and composers. The...
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We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program

I am not sure if they still do this on TV, but in times past, when there was important national news, an announcer would break in with a statement like, “We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you this important message.” Perhaps the president was...