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Concentration strategies for students
Merlin Mann | Oct 3 2007
Here's a wonderful tour de force on Concentration that's written for students and which includes tips on identifying distractions as well as a useful list of techniques for putting your attention where you want it to be and keeping it there. A few I liked:
We have lots more here on battling distraction, including this excellent essay on "good" distractions by Paul Ford. 15 Comments
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 Re: State your objectiveSubmitted by mpancha on October 4, 2007 - 10:38am.
Looking back, I think that's why I got so much done today. My goal for the end of next week is to be able to apply virtualization to some servers at work. I spent yesterday "learning about VM Ware", end of the day, I hadn't learned much. I had a lot of software downloaded and installed, but no clue where to even begin the first step towards the goal. Today, I spent 2 hours in the morning learning about VMWare Convertor, and putting it to use to create 2 usable Virtual machines. Then I spent 2 hours learning "what can a VM Server do to help me centralize the VMs, what are the pros and cons". Now I have that answer in hand. Looking back, I'm about 10 steps ahead of where I was yesterday. After reading your post, I realize what I did, and now just have to make it a point to split up this and future tasks into similar goal oriented steps. » POSTED IN:
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