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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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That’s what history is for: to learn the lessons of our ancestors. Kids need to start learning the difference between a debit and a credit card. I learned this the hard way. I said to myself, I hope my phone doesn’t ring, because I won’t sign the note this time. My phone never rang. Be a good student of history.

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What Happened When I Ditched Technology for 7 Days

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I switch off my phone and stash it out of sight. During the lulls, I’m no longer a member of the pick-up-your-phone-to-fill-the-void club. I learned that technology swallows a huge portion of time that I used to spend doing things I love, such as reading and doing puzzles. The clock says it’s 12:01 a.m. Admittedly, I’m excited.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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Going along to get along sounds like a restful approach to your interactions, but in reality, learning how to stand up for yourself—to ask for what you want, say no when necessary and insist on due respect—is much more effective for facing the world with confidence. Assertion is a skill that can be learned like any other.

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Miro Miroslavov CEO & Co-founder OfficeRnD | Embracing Flexibility in Business

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What you’ll learn Explore the surge of flexible workspaces as a response to post-pandemic workstyle changes. That’s the same percentage going back into the late ninety s and early two thousand s that the entire PC industry grew, right, faster than the mobile phone industry has grown. What does that do to lifestyle?

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Block out specific times to initiate phone calls, personally take incoming calls and meet people in person. Learning from others’ successes and setbacks will inevitably improve production of any kind. This article was published in February 2016 and has been updated. Handle each piece of incoming mail only once.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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It doesn’t include marketing campaigns, friends’ social media updates and all of the other components of a world in which your time is someone else’s commodity, a world in which seemingly everyone is trying to find ways to reach through your phone and into your living room to steal your attention, just for a minute, promise.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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To learn about the curious malady known as “decision fatigue,” I was given a very simple assignment: Wear the same outfit and automate as many daily decisions as possible for two weeks, then write about whether it gave me more mental clarity. This was interesting to learn, and terrible for my science. That was it. Easy breezy.

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