The Science of How to Stay Focused: Psychology, Habits, and Chewing Gum | Crew Blog

How many things are vying for your attention right now? Your phone? Email? Slack? Twitter? That nagging to-do list that just seems to keep growing? Modern technology has given us so many amazing things,...

A Scientific Method For Building Good Habits and Making Them Stick | The Mission

Good habits take time to stick. You will feel amazing if every time you put your mind to something, you got it done in a specific and realistic time. You didn’t start and stop. You never got off track.

Quiet Doesn't Cut It: Why Your Brain Might Work Better In Silence | Fast Company

Shhh. Hear that? No? That's surprising. Odds are, you can hear something right now: A siren, the hum of a fan, the blur of background conversations, the ticking of a watch. It's seldom that our worlds are fully silent...

Three Key Principles of ‘Future Self’ Thinking | Lifehacker

One of the most powerful concepts I’ve ever come across in my years of studying and thinking about personal finance issues is the concept of the “future self.” “Future self” is pretty much exactly what you think it is:...

These 25 Productivity Principles Will Change How You Work Forever

According to a recent McKinsey report, today’s workforce spends 61% of their time managing work rather than doing it. That’s insane. We can do better than that. Productivity is fairly simple, in theory. 

I'm Amir Salihefendic, CEO of Doist, and This Is How I Work | Lifehacker

Todoist is an old contender among to-do list managers, helping people corral their work into manageable tasks for almost a decade. It’s grown into a cross-platform tool that can be used for collaboration and project...

What It's Really Like to Work a 30-Hour Week | Elle

Some days I feel like there are 30 hours in the day; the week has approximately a thousand. I'm no more taxed than your average working mother of a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old (less taxed, probably, given that it's 2017,...

On Minimalism: The Difference Between Focused and Busy | Evernote Blog

In part one of this series, we discovered that there’s a difference between being busy and being happy. Between work, academics, family, and personal relationships, we don’t have much time left for ourselves.

Ask Why: How to Motivate Yourself to Keep Going When Things Get Hard | Tiny Buddha

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche. My father was an amazing man. I’m sure most sons think that about their fathers, but it’s a belief held by more than just myself.

Manvotional: The Essence of Simplicity | The Art of Manliness

From The Simple Life, 1903 By Charles Wagner When one passes in review the individual causes that disturb and complicate our life, by whatever names they are designated, and their list would be long,...