Month: March 2019

As a college freshman I took a course called Engineering 1 from the great James Adams. James Adams is the author of Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, one of the earliest books to integrate concepts from fields as diverse as psychology, art, business, engineering, and philosophy. In that course, Professor Adams gave us an assignment: (1) think of…

One of the great subtopics within the broader one of “How to be productive” is Motivation. The greater the act ― more involved, complex, difficult ― the more we must sustain our motivation to achieve it. It’s an immense topic that well deserves the volumes that address it. How do the most productive people generate and sustain the motivation they…