“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”
If you are serious about succeeding on your course, The Study Skills Handbook is your essential companion. This book will help you to develop core study skills in time management, academic writing, critical thinking and more.
With a blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, the authors take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.
At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key productivity concepts—from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making—that explain why some people and companies get so much done.
In Creativity Works! the authors explain what creativity is and why we are less creative than we would like to be. In this book you’ll practise basic skills to become creative and learn how a smart creative process can be designed and executed.
The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities.
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.
Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Morten Hansen reveals the answers that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance.
Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively.
An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.
These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic.
The concept of metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention - helping you live the life you really want. Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction and lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model.
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
In the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done, you’ll discover how to focus your time and energy where they will yield the greatest reward. Not only will you end each day knowing you made progress―your improved productivity will also set you apart from the pack.
Keys to College Successsets the standard for connecting academic success to success beyond school, showing students how to apply strategies within college, career, and life.
The text focuses on reading and learning as a cognitive process, encouraging students to approach reading as an active mental process of selecting, processing, and organizing information to be learned.
The Ultimate Study Skills Handbook will help you succeed from the first week of your studies through to graduation. Covering all the core skills you will need to help you make the most of your university course, The Ultimate Study Skills Handbook is your key to success.
Offers guidance to writing a research paper and discusses choosing a topic, finding sources, organizing material, drafting the paper, and preparing the final copy.
Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.