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(Part One) Way back in my childhood, when the world was still mostly photographed in black and white, I played tag with the other kids on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. The tree in front of my...

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Home Base (continued)

The Form and Function of Home In part one we saw that feelings associated with home base are not necessarily the same feelings we have while in our parents’ house(s)—maybe that home feels homey, maybe...

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Make Boring Tasks Easy

The Sisyphus Series, Part I I have the shittiest job in the house. I scoop my cats’ litter box. A couple of years ago I successfully traded the after-dinner clean-up for scooping the cat box plus a...

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Overpower Boring Tasks with Tools

The Sisyphus Series, Part II OK, you’re Sisyphus. You’ve got this enormous rock to get up the hill. You can push it yourself, or you can drive it up in your Ford F350 truck. Like crows, humans can use...

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Minimize Boring Tasks with Flow

The Sisyphus Series, Part III If you have to push a boulder up a hill, when do you want to do it?—And by “when” I mean right after doing what and right before doing what? The modern day Sisyphus might...

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Bored? Alienate the Worker

The Sisyphus Series, Part IV Of the three Sisyphean principles, this is perhaps the most counterintuitive. You’re thinking, I have to roll a boulder up a hill every friggin’ day, I hate this already,...

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Take the Test from the Inside, Part I

Powerful study techniques and the art of higher-order questioning. Here’s an oldie-but-goodie note-taking system1 that works especially well for a course that has exams. Draw a line vertically down the...

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Take the Test from the Inside (Part II)

Predict what will be on the exam So, you’ve got good study notes with good questions and killer summaries, and the exam is looming. You’re good to go, right? One more thing. Predict what’s going to be...

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Being Present Meditations

How present do you feel right now? Presence, as in “presence of mind,” is the most essential prerequisite for harnessing attention. “Being present” means, at the very least (and for some mystics, at...

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Overwhelming Emotion? Try Unfusing

Feeling bad? If, inside, you are saying, “I’m anxious,” or “I’m depressed,” or “I’m furious,” or any other overwhelming and unpleasant emotion, Try unfusing1—as in uncoupling—from it. Unfusing works...

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