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Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work
About this presentation Play is nature’s learning engine, says games researcher and author Aaron Dignan. In other words, we’re hardwired to enjoy games – they’re addictive, skill-building, and...
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99U Music Mix – Work at a Different Speed
When it’s time to focus on your creative labors, you don’t want to feel rushed. Wordless, immersive, and ambient, this latest 99U music mix – Work at a Different Speed – is about as un-hurried as you...
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8 Counter-Intuitive Ways to Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity
To help you break the busy-ness cycle and work happier, we’ve rounded up a handful of counter-intuitive ways to tweak your habits and your mindset. They range from obvious-but-oft-ignored tips to the...
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Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative
About this presentation Time is finite, but we act as if it were otherwise, assuming that longer hours always lead to increased productivity. But in reality our bodies are designed to pulse and pause –...
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How To Accomplish More By Doing Less
Two people of equal skill work in the same office. For the sake of comparison, let’s say both arrive at work at 9am each day, and leave at 7 p.m. In truth, a 10-hour workday is too long, but in most...
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Pat Kiernan: On Curation Tactics, Getting Up Early & Calling It Done
He’s up at 3 am, in the office by 4 am, and on-air in time for New Yorkers to wake up to his deadpan delivery of the morning news, and his signature feature, “In The Papers.”Pat Kiernan, NY1′s morning...
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Should I Meditate?
I was peripherally interested in the idea of meditation for a long time before actually sitting down and trying it. The thing that finally pushed me over the edge to start practicing was meditation’s...
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What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways
What happens after you’ve tried a new productivity routine for a few hours, a day, or even a week only to then find yourself seemingly right back where you started? Do you give up? Or try once more...
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How Switching Tasks Maximizes Creative Thinking
You’ve been hunched for hours at your desk working on the same creative problem, and now your efforts are generating diminishing returns. Like a spinning wheel digging itself deeper into a rut, you...
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The Power of Structured Procrastination
Through the core of every procrastinator runs the vein of childish rebellion. You’d rather do anything besides what you’re supposed to be doing. And you’d much rather be doing the shiny, fun thing....
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The Secret to Feeling Energized at Work? Autonomy.
Imagine there was something you could add to your car’s engine, so that after driving a hundred miles, you’d end up with more gas in the tank than you started with. Wouldn’t you use it? OK, that...
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It’s Not About “Productivity.” It’s About Living Purposefully.
In the time you’ve read this sentence, your brain has processed about 200 “bits” of information.Your brain can handle roughly 100 bits of information per second which then become part of your...
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How To Make Your Next Vacation Count
When we picture our next break from work, we think we’ll spend our time unplugged and slowly refreshing from our day-to-day. But sometimes, the stress of missing work or planning the perfect itinerary...
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The Out-of-Touch Effect: The Impact of Isolating Yourself From Your Customers
A degree of success can breed complacency. We grow confident in our creative process and start cruising along in the comfort zone. It feels safe but this is how we can become insulated and...
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How I Kept a 373-Day Productivity Streak Unbroken
As I sit down to write this, I am in the midst of a streak. I have written every day for the last 373 consecutive days. That consecutive day streak is part of a larger streak that began in late...
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Being Creative While in Pain: Working with Chronic Illness
When I stepped outside in running gear on a snowy January morning two years ago, I expected to be out for two hours or so. I was marathon training, the “long slow run” each Sunday a foundation of my...
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6 Ways to Quickly Restore Sanity to Your Day
It may seem counter-intuitive, but it is during your most stressful, crisis-filled times that you most need to take regular breaks. We often view taking ten as a bonus, an added reward on a slow day,...
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