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Q&A: Professor Cal Newport on the Right Way to Study for Midterms

Q&A: Professor Cal Newport on the Right Way to Study for Midterms

By Meena Morar March 19, 2018

Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, has never had a social media account in his life. The author of five self-improvement books focused on academic and career...

SISODIYA: Achieving Flow, Maintaining Focus

SISODIYA: Achieving Flow, Maintaining Focus

By Sudhanshu Sisodiya December 6, 2016

We all recall times where we just hope we could zone in on the moment, focus on a given assignment without distractions, with the distilled clarity of Bradley Cooper’s character in the 2011 movie “Limitless.”  The...

The Productivity Problem

By Charlotte Glasser June 10, 2015

The ever-popular production possibilities frontier, or PPF, puts productivity in the terms that I’m confident many Georgetown students are familiar with. Picture the top-right quarter of any circle...

CARNES: A Passion for Reading Outside Academic Texts

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. March 7, 2014

Shortly before being named national security adviser in 2000, Condoleezza Rice admitted in a newspaper profile that she had “stopped reading for pleasure” early in life. Hers was a driven childhood,...

GILBERT: From Mind-Wandering to Productivity

By Caitlin Gilbert November 21, 2011

In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, it's hard to stay focused. Unfortunately for college students, the amount of schoolwork just before the holiday break seems to increase proportionally to our level...

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