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Top Articles on Behavior Change
Multitasking During Meetings? How to Make Your Colleagues Indistractable
Nir’s Note: This guest post is written by Jenny Wood, an author, speaker, founder of Google’s popular “Own Your Career” program. She writes for the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and her own blog. When I moved from a Google sales team in New York City to a...
How to Build a Habit-Forming Enterprise Product
Use the Hooked Model to retain your customers by building better habitsFor companies building products for enterprise customers, increasing customer retention by just 5 percent increases profits by 25 to 95 percent. Yet keeping customers isn’t easy. Eighty percent of...
Score Your Spats: How to Stop Arguing and Enhance Your Relationships
[10:26 pm] Shane Parrish: oh i mean[t] to tell you... I remember something you told me that I now share with everyone. It's made a difference for so many. The “something” he’s referring to is a simple question that my wife and I have posed to each other throughout our...
Unlocking Focus with the Distraction Tracker
Use this tool to stop wasting precious time on distractionThink you’ll explode if you try one more ineffective productivity hack? Here’s what you need to know to actually hack back distraction: There are only three causes of any distraction: an internal trigger, an...
The Crucial Difference Between Distraction and Diversion
Understanding the distinction is the first step to managing your timeBecause I write about distraction and how to avoid it, I often get asked the question “Aren’t distractions sometimes a good thing? Don’t we all need some distraction in our lives?” Nope!The Big...
Decoding Self-Serving Bias: A Spy’s Guide to Clear Thinking
Nir’s Note: Shane Parrish is the writer of the popular blog Farnam Street, where he shares insights on decision-making, mental models, and lifelong learning. He is also a former cybersecurity expert and intelligence officer. This excerpt about the cognitive bias known...
This Meeting Could have Been an Email: From Time Suck to Unstuck
End boring, useless meetings once and for all.We’ve all been in a dumb meeting—one that makes you think, “This doesn’t even apply to me,” “I’m learning nothing from this,” or, worst of all, “This meeting could have been an email.” I’m sure you’ve commiserated with...
When Do You Feel Most Creative? Why Ideas Bloom at Bedtime
Schedule time for mind wanderingMore times than I can count, I’ve slid under the bedsheets, turned off the light, and shut my eyes…only to have a great idea pop into my head. I’ll toss and turn for a while, hoping I’ll forget the thought. But if it’s a good one, I’ll...
32 Morning Affirmations: Rise & Shine! [Science-Backed]
Science shows self-affirmations can shift our mindset and behavior.Even if you’re not sure about the power of morning affirmations, the science behind them is–when used correctly, self-affirmations can significantly affect your mindset and behavior. They have...
Scheduling for Life’s Surprises: When Timeboxing is Toast
You have more control than you think Some days, the world seems intent on sabotaging your timeboxed calendar. A meeting goes longer than expected. The daycare center calls to say that your child is ill and has to be picked up ASAP. A project you thought would take an...