The harsh truth is that no-one cares about your idea the way you do. I tell you this, not to be mean, nor to suggest your idea is not brilliant, or that you are somehow lacking in your communication of it... just because if you think that someone else is going to fill in when you're ...
This is where I live. In this space between what I could achieve in a given day, or week, or month... and what in my imagination I'm capable of. Of course in my imagination I never kick back and watch a movie with my friend and a bottle of wine (honestly, this rarely happens in reality ...
It's been bothering me a little lately that some people have been describing me as a workaholic, I think that university effectively rewards workaholism and in the real world it's easier to avoid. Here are a list of reasons I've come up with (feel free to suggest more!): No distinction between work place and home place, ...
Google this, there's nothing useful. Someone needs to write a book on this! I'd buy it, would you? If not, hopefully it's because you're not a minion. Grad students are basically minions. I am the minion of my supervisor (luckily he's nice), the minion of any prof whose course I take (to a lesser extent) and the ...
Last week, and at the start of this week I was feeling really worn out and disillusioned. Things were taking longer than they should, and despite working a lot and effectively I really wasn't making the progress I wanted to be. I felt like I wasn't achieving anything. What this really means, is that on ...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, given certain circumstances I find myself in. And I've realized that in all my time at university (I'm entering my 6th year) I've had two great professors. The kind that inspire you, the student, with passion. Who explain clearly. The ones who teach the classes that you ...
The thing about focusing on effectiveness, is that everything that I put on "the List" is something I think is important. And then if I get a little behind I end up in a situation where my todo list for today has a time estimate of over 11 hours. And then I panic. Today I managed ...
Someone once described me as "scarily efficient". I have to say, I took it as a huge compliment. However after reading The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss - Amazon) and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey - Amazon) I've been focusing more on Effectiveness. There's an important distinction. You can be ...
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