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Book Review: The Little Book of Productivity

January 26, 2023September 10, 2008

The Premise Scott Young recently released a new eBook titled The Little Book of Productivity. The idea is simple: The volume of available information concerning … Read more

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Q & A: Transfer Student Zen, Taming Tardy Problem Sets, and Tweaking the Straight-A Method for High School

January 26, 2023September 10, 2008

From the reader mailbag: I’m wondering what changes a college student who intends to transfer should make. I ask this because colleges usually expect transfer … Read more

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Monday Master Class: The Paperback Writer Method

January 26, 2023September 8, 2008

The Writing Life As most first-time authors will admit, writing a book can be daunting. The scale is so massive that it cannot be thought … Read more

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College Chronicles Season 2: Meet Marina, the Liberal Arts Major Who Craves Simplicity

January 26, 2023September 5, 2008

The New Season Begins Last fall I launched an experiment dubbed College Chronicles. It was a “blog-based reality show” that followed three students struggling to … Read more

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5 + 2 Things To Try This Semester

January 26, 2023September 3, 2008

Starting Fresh The new school year has begun. These first few weeks are a time of heady possibility: exams haven’t yet sucked your will to … Read more

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Bonus Post: The Five Most Popular Articles in August

January 26, 2023September 2, 2008

Popularity Contest I’m introducing a new feature here on Study Hacks — a recap of each month’s most popular posts. I hope this will help … Read more

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Monday Master Class: The Story Telling Method

January 26, 2023September 1, 2008

The Study Time Paradox A common complaint I hear goes something like this: “I studied for hours and hours, reviewing every practice problem I could … Read more

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The Genius Myth: The Danger of Worshiping “Exceptional” Students

January 26, 2023August 29, 2008

The Young and Exceptional In a recent article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, professor Rachel Toor asks: Who feels at home in a place … Read more

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Cal launched the "Study Hacks" blog at calnewport.com in 2007, and has been regularly publishing essays here ever since. Over 2,000,000 people a year visit this site to read Cal's weekly posts about technology, productivity, and the quest to live and work deeply in an increasingly distracted world, while tens of thousands more subscribe to have these essays delivered directly to their inbox (see the sign-up form below). To read more, you can browse more than 15 years of past essays in the archive.
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