Comments on: My Recent Experience With Working Harder, Not Smarter http://www.gearfire.net/experience-working-harder-smarter/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: What’s the M Matter - Part 2 « UniversityBlog http://www.gearfire.net/experience-working-harder-smarter/#comment-4408 What’s the M Matter - Part 2 « UniversityBlog Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:43:58 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/experience-working-harder-smarter/#comment-4408 [...] is explained well in detail at Gearfire Student Productivity. So I’ll shut up with this and let you check that link out [...] […] is explained well in detail at Gearfire Student Productivity. So I’ll shut up with this and let you check that link out […]

]]> By: Cal http://www.gearfire.net/experience-working-harder-smarter/#comment-4314 Cal Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:13:10 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/experience-working-harder-smarter/#comment-4314 One of the students I interviewed for my last book told me that the way she improved her grades was to wait until she was actually on her way to the library, and then ask: "what could I do to get out of her faster?" At that moment, with the grim specter of work hanging overhead, she was at her most motivated to fix bad habits, because she really wanted to be done as soon as possible. Once, of course, better habits were discovered, it was impossible to go back. She ended up doing quite well for herself. One of the students I interviewed for my last book told me that the way she improved her grades was to wait until she was actually on her way to the library, and then ask: “what could I do to get out of her faster?”

At that moment, with the grim specter of work hanging overhead, she was at her most motivated to fix bad habits, because she really wanted to be done as soon as possible.

Once, of course, better habits were discovered, it was impossible to go back. She ended up doing quite well for herself.

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