How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus
Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress.
Social Media Minimalism: 3-Step Detox (incl. Worksheet) — Anuschka Rees
Step 1: Assess how your current usage is making you feel As a very first step you need to take a closer look at both the benefits and downsides your current social media usage is giving you, so you can isolate whatever isn’t working out. On the graphic above and the worksheet you'll find a list of ten typical positive and negative emotions/scenarios. Using a scale of 1 to 10 (1= never/ not at all and 10= always/ a lot), estimate how often or to what extent you experience each of these, separately for every platform i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any others you use. That exercise alone should already give you a much clearer picture of the value each social media platform is adding to vs. stripping from your life.
A Life of Productivity – 100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
When I graduated University with a business degree last May, I received two incredible full-time job offers, both of which I declined because I had a plan. For exactly one year, from May 1, 2013, through May 1, 2014, I would devour everything I could get my hands on about productivity, and write every day about the lessons I learned on A Year of Productivity. Over the last 12 months I have conducted countless productivity experiments on myself, interviewed some of the most productive people in the world, and read a ton of books and academic literature on productivity, all to explore how I could become as productive as possible, and then write about the lessons I learned.
Time Management Tips: How to Find the Right Mindset to Succeed With Time Management
For the past several years I have worked with time management techniques such as lists, prioritization, planning and so on. But it wasn’t until I adopted a Quadrant 2 mindset that I really started seeing results.
6 hostage negotiation techniques that will get you what you want
How does hostage negotiation get people to change their minds? The Behavioral Change Stairway Model was developed by the FBI’s hostage negotiation unit, and it shows the 5 steps to getting someone else to see your point of view and change what they’re doing. It’s not something that only works with barricaded criminals wielding assault rifles — it applies to most any form of disagreement.
A Message to the People-Pleasers: You are not Helping Anyone.
What would you say takes up the vast majority of our time—mental space and energy? Work? Parenting? Bill-paying? Maybe it’s anxiety, personal relationships or money stress?
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming Your Best Self
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle is credited with saying these 15 famous words. And for most of my life…I didn’t believe him. I fought against cultivating good habits and routines because I didn’t want to feel like I had to live my life by other people’s rules. I wanted to be my own person and do my own thing.
The Secret Weapon For Better Focus
Advertisement Are you looking for a more efficient way to organise your work-days? Try Time Blocking. A few months back, I came across Cal Newport’s illuminating post on Time Blocking — a productivity “hack” that helps you to make the most of your work day by assigning very specific tasks to very specific blocks of time. This is loosely based on Parkinson’s Law, the idea of which is that work will simply expand to fill the time available for its completion.
Benefits of Simplicity to Productivity
Simplicity is often perceived as boring, unattractive and unremarkable. Majority of people want something striking and complicated. But as Leonardo da Vinci has said, Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Different to the common belief, simplicity is not boring, unattractive or unremarkable.
Neuroscientists Discover Daily Meditation Reduces Pain By 40-57% (Double The Relief Of Morphine)
A new study being published tomorrow (April 6, 2011) in the Journal of Neuroscience proves that meditation has profound pain-relieving effects in the brain. “This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., lead author of the study and post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “We found a big effect – about a 40 percent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 percent reduction in pain unpleasantness.
23 Body Language Tricks That Make You Instantly Likeable
You send people signals all day, without paying attention to them. The way you move your eyes, the way you shake a hand and so on. There are things you can do to send subconscious signals using body language that make people like you better, or at least give you the benefit of the doubt.
The Ultimate Guide to The Pomodoro Technique - Asian Efficiency
Whenever I tell people that we help people become more productive and achieve their goals faster, the usual follow up question is: what’s your number one productivity tip? Based on this article, you might think I would say the Pomodoro Technique. Actually, the number one tip is to eat your frog. The second best tip is to use the Pomodoro Technique. (When you can combine both eating your frog and the Pomodoro Technique you’re pretty much unstoppable.) Ever since we started AE in 2011, the Pomodoro Technique has stood the test of time.
10 Mini Productivity Hacks To Ease Your Life
We probably live in the busiest and most distracting time in history, and all the tasks we have to accomplish each day can be really difficult to complete when it’s hard to focus. Everyone wants to be more productive, but many people don’t know where to start. Or worse, they think the key to productivity involves doing things that look like a major lifestyle shift. The good news, however, is that there are many small things you can do to make your life easier and more productive. Here are ten mini productivity hacks that you can start using today.
Dave Lee — Introducing the Week Chart
Update: Thanks Lifehacker for picking up this post. (This is Part 3 in a series about My Productivity System.) In this post I’d like to share with you the Week Chart. It’s part of my recipe to keep focused and release incredible amounts of creativity throughout the week. Here’s what the Week Chart looks like this: The Week Chart’s main purpose is to show all your Desired Outcomes and Daily Focus Areas in one persistent view.
