1. The Pomodoro Technique
A short explainer on the pomodoro technique, and how to navigate interruptions when one is working using the technique.
2. How to Set Goals: 80/20 Rule for Goal Setting – Brian Tracy
The Pareto principle or 80/20 rule as applied to goal setting and productivity teaches that 20% of efforts account for 80% of results or outcomes. Focus on the vital few things you need to do – the 20% – towards achieving your goals.
3. Flow – TED Talk – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The lack of material resources contributes to unhappiness but the steady increase in material resources does not enhance happiness. Happiness, instead, is found to result when one is in the state of flow – an engaging, immersive process of creation. Flow is an intense state that makes us create a new reality and enter it. In this state of consciousness, one might lose sense of one’s body and existence because all of one’s attention is immersed in the pursuit that created the state of flow.