I am halfway through The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person. Judith Beck's exercises, combined with MyFitnessPal, are helping me adhere to a lose-a-pound-a-week diet. I don't agree with everything in the book, but I give it a qualified...
Exercise: Quick Condensations Background Now here's a puzzle: what if you're overloaded by a text, such as a report you're reading, or many notes, or pages and pages of thinking on paper? How do you reduce the overload? You need to be able to condense a section of...
Any new goal you set that will take more than 2 weeks to accomplish will also impact the rest of your daily and weekly schedule. You will need to put regular time on task over a period of weeks, even though there will be surprises that are outside of your control. Moreover, unless you are finishing up a big project, you will need to figure out where the time will come from.[…]
"Having participated in the 'Thinking Tactics' course, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their thinking methods. The course is particularly helpful in bringing to consciousness practical techniques to focus your thought process and overcome thinking...
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I’ve been asked to explain the difference between my Eyes-Wide-Open Decision Making Process1 and a typical decision process. The short answer is — my method offers a way to validate difficult decisions, when you can’t reach certainty. Many decision methods can speed...
This is an open Q&A. Ask me about anything–managing emotions, managing intellectual work, precision and accuracy in thinking, productivity, goal-setting, happiness, defining and pursuing a central purpose, developing skills, managing health, social objectivity, improving relationships[…]
Whether you achieve a goal depends very much on how you formulate it in the first place. The standard advice for those setting goals is to make them “SMART”: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. This advice turns out to be necessary but not sufficient for ensuring you are motivated to follow through. […]
Introduction to Goal-Setting As an introduction to goal-setting, I recommend you listen to Goal-Setting 101 and Goal-Setting 201, my introductory classes on Goal-Setting. My approach to goal-setting is different from most people's. I focus on what makes a doable goal....
When you feel the impulse to procrastinate, micromanage, or any other dubious action, it can be hard to switch gears and get your head motivated in a more constructive direction.[…]
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