Why am I focusing on increasing my typing speed as a student?

Musings, Productivity, Tip & Tricks

If you are a student like me, you know the drill. Wake up, attend lectures, do tons of assignments, focus on research, come back home to find yourself occupied with homework, and then the cycle repeats. It often is a blessing to find a few hours free, let alone an...

Paralysis by Analysis. Don’t fall into the death trap

Productivity

Being able to figure out how much time to dedicate to decision-making is a key skill in life. Often, at work, we are given deadlines that have to be met, and that puts us in an ‘easy’ position. For other areas of life, we don’t have the...

Putting Pen to Paper

Musings, Productivity

At times life gets busy. Very busy. We find ourselves so occupied by stuff around us that we neglect the routine activities- be it taking medicines on time or going out for the post-meal walk. For me, the past month has been one such time. I had on most days forgotten...

Ultralearning- a powerful self-learning tool to accelerate personal growth

Book Scribbles, Productivity

I was introduced to the concept of Ultralearning through a book of the same name by Scott H. Young. Ultralearning involves a deep dive into a focus area for a well-defined time to reap maximum benefits. In this book, the author talks about how he was able to put this...

Is it (still) worth reading books when everything is just a google away?

Productivity

We are exposed to more information in a day than someone who lived in the 1400s in his entire life. Let that sink in. We are living in an age of information. In an age, where information has started taking a toll on us. Everything is just a quick google search away....