Price's Law

Darius Foroux blogs about Price's Law and productivity.

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Rest for Success

By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang suggests that successful innovators need rest and relaxation as much as hours on the job. Pang cites a survey of psychology professors done by Raymond Van Zelst and William Kerr:

Scientists who spent 25 hours in the workplace were no more productive than those who spent five. Scientists working 35 hours a week were half as productive as their 20-hours-a-week colleagues.

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Inculcating Positive Habits

James Clear recommends that those seeking to develop a positive habit should:

1. "make a specific plan for when, where, and how you are going to implement it."
2. "focus entirely on one habit."
3. Practice! "it takes at least two months for new habits to become automatic behaviors."

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Personal Warmth and Business Success

Renuka Rayasam suggests that personal warmth is what attracts people to a product or service. A takeaway is that the personality of those hired to work with clients is extremely important.

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Personal Success Apps

Sarah Purewal recommends 10 apps for personal success.

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Challenging Students to Read Difficult Books

Ashley Thorne suggests that students will accomplish more if challenged to read difficult texts.

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Suggestions for Personal Success

Benjamin Hardy offers tips for personal happiness .

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Affirmation Effect

Carmen Gallo shares two words that Joel Osteen says should preceed any personal self-affirmation. Unfortunately, Gallo's article is so brief that I cannot tell if what is espoused is positive thinking or something more scientifically or theologically based.

I commend to the reader Mitch Horowitz's book One Simple Idea: A Short History of Positive Thinking, which is available both in print or audio formats. Horowitz reviews the development and growing acceptance of positive thinking and the self affirmation movement in the United States.

My own belief is that the positive impact of self affirmation is limited by personal gifting and providence. My preference is the phrase used in "The Little Engine That Could."

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Living Without Regret

Robert Sternberg advises academics on living without regrets .

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The Key to Success Is Grit

Angela Lee Duckworth expouses the concept that success comes to the determined .

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Professional Development Tips

Rich Hein shares professional development tips for programmers professional development tips for programmers . Most of these, such as staying current in your field, are of value to anyone in a job influenced by changing technology.

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Success Tips

Chester Elton warns of behaviors which harm motivation .
Florence Lewis shares a similar theme, presenting "Typical Excuses of Unproductive People.

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Career Success

Steven Lowe shares "Ten Hard-Earned Lessons of a Lifetime in IT."   He notes that the ability to write, to market yourself and your work to others is vital.

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Disruptive Technology Podcast Clayton Christensen

Harvard professor Clayton Christensen talks about disruptive technology in this American Management Association podcast.

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