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  Study Hacks explores strategies for building a life that is both remarkably accomplished and remarkably enjoyable. Its primary audience is students, but at least half the content is non-student specific, and the site enjoys readers of all ages.

  Study Hacks is run by Cal Newport, an MIT postdoc and author of the popular advice guides How to Become a Straight-A Student and How to Win at College. His new book, How to Be a High School Superstar, is now available.

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  • A Study Hacks Primer
  • The Study Hacks Philosophy on College
  • The Straight-A Method: How to Ace College Courses
  • Want to Get Into Harvard? Spend More Time Staring at the Clouds
  • How to Become a Zen Valedictorian: Decreasing Your Stress Without Decreasing Your Ambition
  • The Danger of Deep Procrastination
  • The Study Hacks Guide to Beating Student Stress
  • The Straight-A Gospels: Pseudo-Work Does Not Equal Work
  • On the Value of Hard Focus
  • Does Living a Remarkable Life Require Courage or Effort?

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  • Tips: Fighting Procrastination (24)
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