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[shinysherlock]

advice from dad

So, my Dad is a 73-year-old Mexican man who has lived here since he was 16. He was in Watts during the riots in 1965; in 1992, when I was in LA, as soon as the Rodney King verdict was announced, he called me, told me what was coming, told me how to stay safe. He has survived horrible living conditions, being kidnapped, physical abuse, prejudice, discrimination. He learned English, got his green card, pays his taxes, works hard, and has three daughters. 

I thought he would be devastated today.

But he wasn’t.

He saw that I was sad and angry, and he asked me why, pretending he had no idea. I almost started crying. And then he said, “no se me chicopale.” 

It means, don’t lose heart. Don’t give in to despair.

I asked him why he wasn’t upset.

He said, basically, “The world has always been this way. There are always people who are afraid, who are racist, who are awful. This is not new. And it will never go away. He won. We can’t do anything about that. All we can do is what we can do. Fight for what matters to us. Take care of each other. And don’t lose heart. And here, I got these unsalted cashews for you and a bag of jamaica drink mix and can you show me how to use the new washing machine because it’s not working.”

And, for reasons I can’t articulate, I feel a little better. 

[kryptaria]

As a Jew who just spent two hours talking to a rabbi for the first time in thirty years, please give your dad a hug from me.

Tikun olam, the rabbi reminded me. Literally, it means world repair. It means we live in an imperfect world, and instead of looking to the Heaven of the next world, it’s our duty to be a light in THIS world – to protect those people who need our protection, to work for social justice, and to improve the world as a whole.

The world needs our light.

[inacatastrophicmind]

Welcome back, October

[pnkrathian]

i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.

look at my glow in the dark humerus boy

[pnkrathian]

hey. if anyone wants em:

NIH 3D Library (Free)

Embodi3D (Free and Paid)

MorphoSource (Free, database of fossils)

Scans can also be found by searching on general-purpose 3D sites like Thingiverse, Cults3D, MakerWorld, Sketchfab

The glow in the dark filament I used

If you don’t have a 3D printer, check the website of your local library to see if they do! If you’re in college, your university’s libraries could have one too! They’ll likely have info on how to submit a print to their services and how/where you could find them.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hey can we. can we rewind to the part where tumblr has a regular problem with bone stealing scandals

[answrs]

look, if you didn't already know about the Bone Stealing Witch claiming that any skeletons unearthed when a cemetery flooded were free game, I can't exactly blame you, but man I wish I could be in your position.

[justsomeantifas]

them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT

biologist:

[systlin]

Like literally the only reason we didn’t go extinct is because we are aggressively social creatures who community organized and helped each other when faced with disasters that drove other species over the brink. 

 (Like we’re so aggressively social that we looked at APEX PREDATORS and went ‘they look soft! Friend????’)

(The answer was yes because wolves are also aggressively social and they adopted the strange tall not-wolves just as eagerly.)

[kelssiel]

humans @ wolves: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll let us pet them?

wolves @ humans: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll pet us?

[aztechnology]

Just in case people want source, here you go: humans are compelled to help each other in disaster situation, humans feel an innate urge to help others. We will help strangers too, not just family, and it has been tested. 

[boxingcleverrr]

Also we’ve always taken care of our elderly and disabled. When life was literally “hunt and gather every day to live”, we saw value in taking care of those with disabilities. 

[apparentlyeverything]

reblog to make a libertarian mad

[taragrimface]

social darwinism is a concept exclusively employed by people who are both evil and pseudointellectual, 100% of the time, & is basically always code for upholding white supremacy and patriarchy

[khealywu]

there may be a day that i don’t reblog this post, but it’s not today

[the-haiku-bot]

there may be a day

that i don’t reblog this post,

but it’s not today

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

We literally evolved in symbiosis with another species (honeyguides). Honeyguide finds beehive, human opens beehive, honeyguide eats grubs and wax, human eats honey. Self-sufficiency isn’t on the menu.

[headspace-hotel]

mutualistic symbiosis is so fundamental to every ecosystem, plants would never even have come on land without it

[baybelletrist]

Reblog like the wind

[mindblowingscience]

Researchers develop first banana plant resistant to TR4 and black sigatoka

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destr

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive diseases for bananas. Professor of Phytopathology Gert Kema at Wageningen University & Research views the development of the new hybrid, named Yelloway One, as a major breakthrough in banana cultivation, stating, "We've known for some time that conventional breeding can help us develop plants resistant to these diseases. Now we've proven it, and more importantly, we've demonstrated that by using the latest genetic tools, we can do it much faster than others. This is of great importance for the future of banana farming."

Continue Reading.

[mfrance-writes]

Helene Updates: People Don't Know What's Going on in East Tennessee.

I live in East Tennessee. The things that are going on here apparently haven't been reported on very well as we've been dealing with the effects of Helene. People in this same area just an hour to a couple of hours away don't even know what's going on over here.

The area of East Tennessee that I live in is close enough to Asheville that we can pop over to go to the farmers market or pop over for a nice dinner without really thinking about it. We have three rivers in my area: The Pigeon River, the French Broad River, and the Little Pigeon River. The Nolichucky River isn't in my county, but it is close enough to affect the area where I live. These rivers have not flooded in my lifetime or my parents' lifetime.

We are not an area that has EVER experienced more than a small rise in river levels that usually quickly recedes before the flash floods actually occur. We were told that we should prepare for rain to move in by Thursday and then wind to come with more rain on Friday that may disrupt power due to downed trees. There was the possibility of a flash flood in some areas, but overall we weren't told that we needed to be extremely concerned about Helene in my area. (I mean, we're in the Smokey Mountains, in a land-locked state.)

On Friday, we woke up expecting it to be rainy and windy. What we got was news that Waterville Dam and Lake Lure Dam in North Carolina had failed or been severely breached. Later that night, the Nolichucky Dam in Tennessee was breached and expected to catastrophically fail. As a result, the Pigeon River, the French Broad River, the Little Pigeon, and the Nolichucky River all rose to levels that we haven't seen since the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

We were prepared for SOME bad weather...power outages, travel delays because of downed trees or power lines. We were not prepared for something that has never happened here before. How can you prepare for something that has never happened that nobody knew we should be expecting?

We were not prepared for the rivers to break records from over 100 years ago. We were not prepared for the dams to breach and/or fail. We were not prepared for a mass flooding event that made the central area of our town grind to a halt as the first (and sometimes second) floors of essential businesses were submerged in flood waters. We were not prepared for the evacuation orders because we have never experienced evacuations on such a large scale before. This is an event that has never happened in my area.

We are in a State of Emergency. We are waiting for natural disaster relief. People have died, and more are still missing in the more rural areas. Entire homes, farms, businesses have been lost. We do not have water, and there is no timeline for when we can expect that to be fixed. Many people are still without power, and in the more rural areas, the linemen can't get to them to run new power lines without the help of other agencies. Many people still do not have cell and internet service back up and running. The post office is not operational, and the mail is not running. Updates from the Mayor via Facebook Live is the way we're getting most of our information.

I went into the office (because the courts in surrounding counties are still up and running and we have to prep for that), and the area where the law office is located is closed to the public. Helicopters and sirens are an ever-present sound as searches are being conducted. It looks like some kind of post-apocalyptic movie scene, and it kind of feels like one, too.

And the people around us (except for North Carolina, which was totally devastated) don't seem to know that's what we're dealing with for some reason. The sheer number of people I talked to today that are from as close as an hour away that have no idea we're in a State of Emergency is baffling. Literally, people called asking for consults, office appointments, letting us know they were mailing things in, asking if we could hurry and file things... Then when I have to tell them that we're in a State of Emergency, they're shocked because they "had no idea it was that bad."

At the time of posting, I have also only seen (maybe) two news cameras in the area since Saturday. (More may have come via helicopter for aerial footage.)

[sillytriumphdragon]

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”

Beryl Markham - West with the Night, 1942.

Joseph Raymond Wintz - The Blue Door, 1927.

[shakespearesdaughters]

[thoughtportal]

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

[belligerentbagel]

“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“ 

The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)

[lemeute]

SPACE STRIKE GREETINGS, EVERYBODY

(this was December 28, 1973 - 50 years ago!)

[golddustgal]

What do ruined people do? Weird shit. This seems to be the consensus of psychoanalysts as far back as Freud and Jung; the traumatized self creates, out of necessity, a system of self-care that is keen to avoid repeat trauma. This makes change difficult; it makes people who’ve had part of their psyches destroyed by unmanageable emotions push people and emotions away, create obstacles, generate unnecessary drama.

“Grief Magic” by Emily Rapp, The Rumpus (via golddustgal)

[sixteensmallstepstohappiness]

1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise. 2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable. 3. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else. 4. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything. 5. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice. 6. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small. 7. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full. 8. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle. 9. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck. 10. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog. 11. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through. 13. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything. 14. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends. 15. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.

(via elauxe)

A self care list. I’ve been working on this. I promise it’s worth it.

(via sweetbloodsomalia)

[alliterate-deactivated20120901]

Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said fuck that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(via bansheewhale)

http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Payne-Gaposchkin,[email protected]#sip

(via diloolie)

You want to know what else is BADASS about Cecilia Payne?

Her discoveries are because of the work she did with another female astronomer, Annie Jump Cannon (who might have one of the most badass names in science).

Short bio of Annie: 

Annie Jump Cannon was a nearly deaf astronomer best known for developing the system used to classify stars based on temperature. She discovered 300 variable stars, five novas, and one spectroscopic binary. Over the course of her career, she cataloged over 350,000 stars.

Ok, so while Annie is working on the Harvard Classification system as one of Pickering’s Women, she meets and works with Cecilia. At the time it is commonly thought that the sun is made of the same stuff as the earth, in roughly the same amounts.

Cecilia looks at the classification system that Annie has made and realizes that it helps prove that no, the sun is made up of completely different stuff. And not only that but based on Annie’s classification system (temperature/color/etc) she can pick out what stars (and thus the universe) is made of.

So not only was she a complete badass of science, but she was able to do a lot of what she did not because of previous work by a dude, but by building on what other ladies were doing in astronomy.

{I maybe have a LOT of Annie and Cecilia feelings}

(via debatchery)

[exclusivelyeva]

hi! when i study, i have to listen to music. because of this, i spend a lot of time finding stuff to listen to. here’s a masterposts of study sounds for anyone looking for new music :) 

soundtracks

the theory of everything

best of harry potter

ambient:

common rooms: slytherin | gryffindor | hufflepuff | ravenclaw

hogwarts library

the great hall

leaky cauldron

under the hogwarts lake

storm on the hogwarts express

hp ambient noise masterlist

pride & prejudice (fav!!)

lord of the rings

interstellar

disney

animal crossing

the martian

star trek

jurassic park

avengers

gaming soundtracks & playlists

favorite movie soundtracks 

8tracks

study like a superhero

work hard in silence, let success be your noise

yours, vincent (van gogh)

disney acoustics

jazz for the afternoon

the sky-the moon- the stars

songs that feel like hugs

stillness of the mind

coffee & tea

hogwarts

to the moon and back

pop goes instrumental

concentrate

aim for the sky

unfinished sentences

chasing daydreams

sad romantics

everything classic

winter workout

homework at hogwarts

once upon a time

avengers assemble

ultimate instrumental

a grand ball

ravenclaw | hufflepuff | slytherin | gryffindor

spotify playlists

spotify playlist recs

studying with spotify

peaceful piano

brain food

deep focus

intense studying

productive morning

a soft jazz backdrop

atmospheric calm

study vibes

relax & focus

instrumental study

white noise

ambient 

coffitivity

rainymood

soundrown

simplynoise

jazz & rain

faux fire

relaxing snow

a soft murmur

classy fireplace

rainforme

moodturn

snowymood

coding fm

ambient mixer (fav!!)

forest mood

rainy cafe

noisli

hipstersound

classical/instrumental

classical pieces for studying

6 hours of classical music

electronic versions of classical music

classical music masterpost

+ another classical music masterpost

the nutcracker act one

pictures at an exhibition

huge classical playlist

ultimate instrumental playlist

nature + ambient

stormy ocean

ocean

rain

wind (light)

wind (howling)

train

space

gentle rain

river

forest

waterfall

rainforest

thunderstorm

wind chimes

distant traffic

traffic in the rain

nature sounds

playlists by studyblrs!!

electronic thoughts by @eruditekid

drift away by @ofminervas

ascendancy by @unknown-notes

quiscence by @thecollegekid

stay calm by @mildlincrs

peace of mind by @eruditekid

classical studying by @mildlincrs

hard work time by @highlightcrs

back to school with disney by @hermionegoals

keys + strings by @noarasseo

march madness by @symphcny

0 gravity by @cmpsbls

study playlist by @studycell

finals life by @studyrelief

with two sugars, please by @symphcny

work hard, then play hard by @mildlincrs

mornings by @spacekid-studies

music masterposts 

study sounds

study sounds pt 2

study music

melodic studying

listen while studying

studying with music

soundtracks for study

ambient noise masterlist

study music masterpost

my posts

food

advice for freshman

[jhonstudies]

highlighter swatch!

pilot frixion highlighters

pros : cheapest among the highlighters here, does not bleed through paper, erasable and has great colors

cons : a little too light for me, quite liquid-y when you apply, smudges the pen ink quite a bit when you erase

muji window highlighters

pros : have a clear window so that you can see when to stop, fluorescent colors, double-tip

cons : bleeds through paper (a little bit) (i’ve actually not used this as much, add something on what i missed out)

zebra mildliners

pros : comes in a lot of colors, double-tip, good for headings too (based on personal experience), and a studyblr favorite

cons : bleeds through paper (a lot), some colors are too dark which beats the purpose of a highlighter, the fine tip wears out through time

(sidenote : i hit 3k, what the hell?!?!? THANKS YOU GUYS)

[xiotetudes]

tips from an university student

Seeing that so many are starting/going to college soon I’ve decided to collect some tips I have gathered over the last 3 years of being an university student myself.

*MAKE (AT LEAST ONE) FRIEND(S)/ACQUAINTANCE(S) IN EACH CLASS. yay friends who’ll suffer with you! Most importantly if you miss one class you can ask them what you’ve missed, about homework and for their notes. *USE THE PROFESSORS/TA OFFICE HOURS. Almost no one uses them throughout the semester but then two weeks before the finals everyone will go! Sometimes if you know how to ask the TAs might eve give you the answers to one of your assignment problems :’)..sometimes they sit there with you until you get the right answer too :) *USE A BACKPACK. First of all, you can fit a lot of stuff inside. Second of all, if you carry it around for a while, a backpack will be easier on your shoulders and back. 

*PACK A FEW SPARE PENS. If you forget your pencil case this will save you. So try to stuff some pens somewhere in (preferably all of) your bag(s).

*FIRST HOMEWORK? EASY. SECOND? WTF IS HAPPENING. According to my experience the first 1-3 weeks and the first assignment of a class are always easy but then after that, the level of difficulty suddenly increases. Don’t think you can slack off just because it’s seems easy the first few weeks, it’s going to backfire and at some point you might not be able to follow the class anymore. 

presentations

essays (have yet to write one of these but start early?)

weekly assignments

group assignments due in 2-3 week (there might be a lot of communication problems. Try to start on these and get your group to meet up as early as possible)

voluntary homework ( DO THEM !!!! you don’t have to do all but they’ll surely help you when you’re revising for finals)

*START REVISING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 4 weeks before your finals are not enough if you have more than 3 different classes and haven’t even studied or prepared at all yet.

*LESS IS MORE? You can have a big folder to put all your notes for your different classes in but it’ll be way too heavy with all the papers collecting over the semester. So consider just bringing one block to uni and organising your stuff at home. Or just go for digital notes.

*USE GOOGLE DRIVE FOR GROUP WORKS. It’s so useful and can make your life easier. You can write documents, excel files, make slides, create shareable folders and upload files in there. Every group member can view, edit the same document and even add comments on the side for other group members to see. There’s a chat window too! You shouldn’t edit the same part of a document at the same time though.

*USE CLOUD SERVICES. You can save space on your device and can access them from everywhere. Most of my friends send pictures of their notes to my phone and I found it neater to re-upload them online into folders than having a mess of a photo gallery. You can make it available for offline in the mobile app as well!

*CONSIDER GETTING A TABLET. You don’t really need a laptop 90% of the time. Your college/university probably has computer rooms for you to use as well. Most professors use slides these days, so if you got a tablet you could annotate them! You can use your phone but it might be too small. 

THINGS YOU MAY WANT TO CARRY IN YOUR BAG:

snacks & water (You never know how long you might stay at the college/uni after the lectures.)

small jacket (It might get really chilly)

a charger

an umbrella

medicine, painkillers, plaster

tissues, lip balm, hand cream etc

That’s all I can think of right now. It’s a mess but hope you found these tips useful! ☆ instagram: @xiotetudes ✨

[arystudies]

PHUONG OVA’ HERE SERVIN’ QUALITY ADVICE. 

my shoulder has been kiLLINg me since my backpack broke (i’m buying one asAP), making friends in my lab classes has already helped tremendously this first week alone, keePING your notes organized will save you your sanity, and staying on top of things is absolutely important. gOOGLE DOCS IS A LIFE SAVER. i like to carry around extra scantrons, bandaids and neosporin, hand sanitizer, listerine strips, and extra cables for iphones/androids in case someone might need one. yeah!! these tips are really great ok!! 

[studying-towards-success-blog]

21 Tips to Become the Most Productive Person You Know

I wanted to help you create explosive productivity so you get big things done (and make your life matter). Here are 21 tips to get you to your best productivity.

#1. Check email in the afternoon so you protect the peak energy hours of your mornings for your best work. 

#2. Stop waiting for perfect conditions to launch a great project. Immediate action fuels a positive feedback loop that drives even more action. 

#3. Remember that big, brave goals release energy. So set them clearly and then revisit them every morning for 5 minutes. 

#4. Mess creates stress (I learned this from tennis icon Andre Agassi who said he wouldn’t let anyone touch his tennis bag because if it got disorganized, he’d get distracted). So clean out the clutter in your office to get more done. 

#5. Sell your TV. You’re just watching other people get successful versus doing the things that will get you to your dreams. 

#6. Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm). 

#7. Run routines. When I studied the creative lives of massively productive people like Stephen King, John Grisham and Thomas Edison, I discovered they follow strict daily routines. (i.e., when they would get up, when they would start work, when they would exercise and when they would relax). Peak productivity’s not about luck. It’s about devotion. 

#8. Get up at 5 am. Win the battle of the bed. Put mind over mattress. This habit alone will strengthen your willpower so it serves you more dutifully in the key areas of your life. 

#9. Don’t do so many meetings. (I’ve trained the employees of our FORTUNE 500 clients on exactly how to do this – including having the few meetings they now do standing up – and it’s created breakthrough results for them). 

#10. Don’t say yes to every request. Most of us have a deep need to be liked. That translates into us saying yes to everything – which is the end of your elite productivity. 

#11. Outsource everything you can’t be BIW (Best in the World) at. Focus only on activities within what I call “Your Picasso Zone”. 

#12. Stop multi-tasking. New research confirms that all the distractions invading our lives are rewiring the way our brains work (and drop our IQ by 5 points!). Be one of the rare-air few who develops the mental and physical discipline to have a mono-maniacal focus on one thing for many hours. (It’s all about practice). 

#13. Get fit like Madonna. Getting to your absolute best physical condition will create explosive energy, renew your focus and multiply your creativity. 

#14. Workout 2X a day. This is just one of the little-known productivity tactics that I’ll walk you through in my new online training program YOUR PRODUCTIVITY UNLEASHED (details at the end of this post) but here’s the key: exercise is one of the greatest productivity tools in the world. So do 20 minutes first thing in the morning and then another workout around 6 or 7 pm to set you up for wow in the evening. 

#15. Drink more water. When you’re dehydrated, you’ll have far less energy. And get less done. 

#16. Work in 90 minute blocks with 10 minute intervals to recover and refuel (another game-changing move I personally use to do my best work).

#17. Write a Stop Doing List. Every productive person obsessively sets To Do Lists. But those who play at world-class also record what they commit to stop doing. Steve Jobs said that what made Apple Apple was not so much what they chose to build but all the projects they chose to ignore. #18. Use your commute time. If you’re commuting 30 minutes each way every day – get this: at the end of a year, you’ve spent 6 weeks of 8 hour days in your car. I encourage you to use that time to listen to fantastic books on audio + excellent podcasts and valuable learning programs. Remember, the fastest way to double your income is to triple your rate of learning. 

#19. Be a contrarian. Why buy your groceries at the time the store is busiest? Why go to movies on the most popular nights? Why hit the gym when the gym’s completely full? Do things at off-peak hours and you’ll save so many of them. 

#20. Get things right the first time. Most people are wildly distracted these days. And so they make mistakes. To unleash your productivity, become one of the special performers who have the mindset of doing what it takes to get it flawless first. This saves you days of having to fix problems. 

#21. Get lost. Don’t be so available to everyone. I often spend hours at a time in the cafeteria of a university close to our headquarters. I turn off my devices and think, create, plan and write. Zero interruptions. Pure focus. Massive results. I truly hope these 21 productivity tips have been valuable to you. And that I’ve been of service. Your productivity is your life made visible. Please protect it. Stay productive.

See more at: http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/09/become-the-most-productive-person-you-know/#sthash.8b8nnYDA.dpuf

[studying-towards-success-blog]

THANK YOU GUYS FOR OVER 22K NOTES! Glad I was able to share the information with everyone! :)

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I pray that September, October, November, & December are all months full of growth, blessings, productivity, new doors open & opportunities.