Posts Tagged ‘book’

The Lifehack Last-Minute Gift List for Productive (and Potentially Productive) People

With less than a week left before Christmas, I thought it would be a good idea to list some of lifehack.org’s favorite gift ideas. Everything on this list would get a hearty smile from the productive person on your gift list. Most of the items shown here are available through Amazon, for fast delivery by Christmas if you hurry. Links here lead to Amazon.com and prices are given in… » Continue

December 19 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, gift, gtd, holiday, Productivity, recommendation, tool | 25 comments»

Your Favorite Productivity Books

Last week, I asked you to recommend your favorite productivity book to a friend or colleague you saw struggling to keep on top of thing. You responded with several great suggestions which I’ll recap below.

Of course, the idea was somewhat contrived — hopefully you don’t go around handing out book recommendations to everyone you see struggling (unless you’re that guy). Sometimes we offer a little tip, a piece… » Continue

December 10 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, gtd, productivuty, recommendation | 8 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: Productivity Books

This week sees the launch of a new series at lifehack.org: We Ask, You Answer. Every Monday I will post a question for the lifehack.org community for you to answer. The following Monday, I will post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of… » Continue

December 3 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, Productivity, question | 24 comments»

10 Overrated Business Books & What To Read Instead

BNet have thrown in their two cents on some of the more popular business reads out there. From Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

6. “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Steven Covey (Free Press, 1989)

Publisher’s blurb: “Presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems.”

Excerpt: “The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective… » Continue

September 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book, business | 6 comments»

Buy A Friend A Book Week

This October 1st to 7th is Buy A Friend A Book Week. Apparently this runs every year with the simple, karmic goal of getting people to buy their friends a good book - those friends who deserve a good book.

It’s pretty random, but a great idea. Particularly if it’s a book you know your friend will benefit from. I’m curious to know which books ‘top the list’ or whether… » Continue

September 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book | 9 comments»

Other Reasons You Should Visit Your Library

Aside from the obvious, there are other things you can do at your local library. From internet access to borrowing dvds and music, it’s worth walking in one day and asking for a membership. It’s free you know!

Adult Classes – The library offers so many classes for adults. I’ve seen GED training, SAT prep, art classes, pottery classes, scrapbooking, pilates and more.

12 Great Reasons to Visit the Library

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September 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book | 4 comments»

15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” - Marcel Proust“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” - Abraham Lincoln

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain
Assuming the public school system hasn’t crushed your soul, learning is a great activity… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: book, intuition, learning, study, thinking | 29 comments»

How To Automatically Read A Book Per Week Without Taking Any Additional Time Out Of Your Day

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a whole stack of books sitting around that you’re really going to read some day. Yeah right!

Sure, it would be nice to get some more reading done, but let’s face it: there is usually something more urgent that needs to get done. And when you have to do all the urgent things, there isn’t much time left over for… » Continue

July 19 2007 | By Brian | Tagged: audio, book, brain, education, learn, leverage, listen, reading | 27 comments»

How To Write A Book In 60 Days

Budding novelists or professional writers alike, the most difficult part of putting a book together is probably commitment. However long you take, if you set the goal and the right time frame, things could actually become complete.

This article from LifeLearningToday talks about setting that time frame and how to write the book within it. From planning your fiction or non-fiction novel to writing it every day and getting it… » Continue

June 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: book | 6 comments»

Get A Big Book Deal From Your Blog

Many bloggers are signing off publishing deals these days - and double congrats to them! But you may ask yourself, how did they do it? How do you take your blogging to people who actually read books still?

Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk - who has released a successful book herself - has written 10 things to keep in mind. It’s not about how to literally take your blog posts to… » Continue

June 15 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, book | 2 comments»

The Dirt Cheap Milk Container binding system

This is a simple binding hack from Judy Of The Woods. She’s made up a very, very cheap alternative to those clip-in binder notebooks that Circa and Rollabind make.

The system revolves around making binding loops from the container plastic with larger heads at each end. Also you’ll need to cut slits outward from your hole punches to insert and remove pages. The results look great, plus the customizations are endless… » Continue

June 5 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: binding, book, notebook | 1 comment»

Interview with Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek - Part 2

In Part 1 of this interview, I asked Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, about his productivity methodology - how can he combine 20/80 rules with Parkinson’s Law to effectively produce the best his can, and how does he focus eliminating on nonessential to become more productive.

Now for this part of the interview, we cover areas on how to plan and live on an ideal lifestyle… » Continue

June 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, interview | 9 comments»

Interview with Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek - Part 1

If you heard of a new book called The 4-Hour Workweek, you know who is Timothy Ferriss. Tim speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003. Recently his book caught my attention. The title itself is very attractive to me who work at least 40 hours per… » Continue

May 31 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, interview | 8 comments»

How-To: Speed Reading

At Lifehack.org How-to Wiki, we have some new content on speed reading. It currently covers the general information, some quick pointers on its techniques, and also myths about speed reading:

3) Speed reading is just skimming the material, you won’t understand it better.

This is dangerous because it is a half-truth. Speed reading is a process for reading everything, whereas skimming is a portion of reading at the upper limits of… » Continue

May 28 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, reading, speed-reading | 5 comments»

UnTech Yourself

Technology can definitely make life easier. E-mail, rapid communication, RSS and the internet create vast opportunities for new information. But technology isn’t perfect. Adopting new technologies can have a sharp learning curve and many programs have unseen bugs and usability problems. Even more prevalent is this boost in information can cause overload, zapping your time in endless e-mails and feeds to read.

Breaking your paradigm of… » Continue

May 10 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: book, ipod, Productivity, Technology | 6 comments»

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