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by da5e 15y ago
http://www.ilearnedtoprogram.com/
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by da5e 15y ago
I think what Newport is saying is that you have to work smart harder in order to get smarter and more hard-working. It's after the hard work and learning that the inspiration comes. The paradox is that if you want something to "come to you"
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On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student(calnewport.com)
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What LeBron James and the Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork(fastcompany.com)
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Rethinking Meaningful Work at the Bluegrass Frat House(calnewport.com)
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How to Quit Like a Champion(thetalentcode.com)
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by da5e 15y ago
General advice at Study Hacks http://www.calnewport.com .
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by da5e 15y ago
Clicking on it still has the effect of awarding an upvote. You just can't see the totals any more.
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by da5e 16y ago
I've started projects that seemed merely interesting and became obsessed with them after steady immersion. Sometimes you just need to see the glimmer of something to motivate you to dig and find the gold.
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by da5e 16y ago
I just started using nudgemail with my Google calendar and I like the ability to just send an email with a task or appointment and be reminded of it as well as have it put into my calendar automatically. It does seem to put appointments in
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How Do I Start an Impressive Project if I Don’t Have an Impressive Interest?(calnewport.com)
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Ask HN: Did Leibniz beat Newton?
2 points by da5e 16y ago|1 comments
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Helping The Experts Get Answers(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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The Little Book of Talent(thetalentcode.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
I woke up thinking about The Information and how the African Drums demonstration of "redundancy overcoming ambiguity" might play out in writing and mnemonics.
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Is It Possible to Feel Passionate About Being a Tax Consultant?(calnewport.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Perhaps the karma for submitting articles should be separate from the karma for comments. I know when I was out to build karma I focused on submissions because there wasn't a downside.
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by da5e 16y ago
For me, perhaps it was my ignorance of the subject that both made me miss the book's inadequacies and made it seem wonderful to me. The concepts were new to me and were counter-intuitive in a mentally liberating way. It was also during a
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by da5e 16y ago
Sorry I don't have a citation for that. As far as I know it hasn't been researched. I was mostly being flippant but I'm not ready to let go of the concept of Talent. There are people who are no more knowledgeable or experienced than I who a
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by da5e 16y ago
Thanks. And that is "deliberate practice" which is a whole other magnitude of difficulty from just practice or play.
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by da5e 16y ago
I'm just on page 4 of 426 and I've already got an intellectual boner for this book. Gleick's Chaos (technically perfect or not) was a huge revelation for me and gave me a truckload of rich metaphors to better understand the world. I'm expec
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by da5e 16y ago
The ability to spend 10,000 hours of deliberate practice on something is an inherited talent.
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by da5e 16y ago
Our brains are always multi-tasking and sometimes you have to let your fingers switch tasks to keep up with its progress.
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Tools for Thinking(nytimes.com)
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What you resist, persists.
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Decoding the Accomplishments of Elite Students(calnewport.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Perhaps during the good times build a habit around grokking and/or math. Set an antecedent activity that is always followed by grokking. And a location in which grokking is done. Then when you're having trouble do that antecedent in that
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by da5e 16y ago
Yes, and the more you can strengthen those habits in the good times, the better they will carry you through the bad.
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The Curse of Tim Ferriss and Why Living Abroad Ain’t Always the Answer(thesaleslion.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
I think there is a gene for being able to devote 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to something.

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