The Inforium

This episode is about taking time to hit the reset button on your productivity and time management systems - and even on your brain. I did this recently, and the result were immediate. Let's talk about that.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

Entropy

10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades - my free book

Todoist

Habitica

The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Productivity with Chris Bailey

A Life of Productivity

Ancillary Justice

The Wind-Up Girl

Environmental impact of various meats and other foods

Clearing to neutral

Mise en place

Casey Neistat's daily schedule

The Power of Habit

Rhode Island hospital

"Never let a crisis go to waste."

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I love this episode, but I sure as heck don't know how to market it. It's a long conversation that touches on a ton of topics - one of which is an answer to the question many students/new grads have: "How long should it take to get good at my job?"

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Things mentioned in this episode:

You Must Try, and Then You Must Ask

Connect with Matt on Twitter

The Corson Technique - the ideal method for asking help from professors

Chronicle of the Whiteboards

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How do you design and deliver presentations that don't make your audience break out those weird neck pillow things? Let's talk about that.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

The Student Power

The Super Student's Guide to Presentations

EKG device

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What's more important, getting good grades or getting a "well-rounded education"? Is there really a difference? How much should you focus on your coursework in college? In this episode, my friend Tom Miller and I discuss these questions.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

WTF Professor

Getting Grades vs. Learning: The Great Debate (Tom's post)

Go to College to Get an Education, Not Just a Degree (Ransom's post)

Automate Your Learning and Build a Bulletproof Study System: The Consolidation Method

The Engineering School Survival Guide: 4 Frameworks To Dominate Your Degree

Signaling Model of Education

My interview with med student Ryan Nguyen

My interview with Cal Newport

The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman

Limitless

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Getting rejected is part of life, and so it learning to deal with it. Today I'll share some experiences I've had with rejection, why they happened, and what I learned from them.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

Episode 11 - How I built College Info Geek

5 Stellar Time Management Tips - the first article I ever wrote

Last episode, which discusses the "healthy amount of narcissism"

Better job interviews through storytelling

97 tips for becoming a better job candidate

Negativity bias

Availability heuristic

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Martin joins me once again on this reader Q&A episode to tackle questions on dealing with setbacks and failure, workouts and tiredness, selecting a dream job, and more.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

I Want to Fly With Hippos

How to Learn Outside of Class (has the screenshot of my Pick Four notebook)

Cortex podcast

Hello Internet podcast

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I'm with my friend Zach Sexton once again, this time to talk about morning routines. Zach goes through his with his girlfriend, while I'm a lone wolf with mine. Today we'll talk about each of our routines, sticking to them, and common pitfalls.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

My original article about morning routines

Follow Zach on Twitter

Zach's awesome article about medidation

What I'm Struggling With

BCAA supplements - Pro opinion vs. Con opinion (I don't know much about them, but my general opinion is to cover all the crucial health bases - diet, exercise, sleep - before thinking about supplements)

Headspace

Habitica

My Twitter-based wake-up system

My cruiser skateboard

Casey Neistat

The "What the Hell" Effect

Sleepyti.me

Rick and Morty

Death Note

StayFocusd

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Humans intrinsically love stories, and you can use that to your advantage to stand out in job interviews (and on your resume). Here's how.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

Take Your Success - Brian's blog

The Golden Resume - Brian's book

Drinking 1400 oz. of water in a week

How much water should you drink?

How I automated 8 hours of work and watched Netflix all day

How to build a personal website

My personal website (the version I used in college)

Should you always send a cover letter?

My interview with Brad Karsh 

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Alan Becker is the creator of the wildly popular Animator vs. Animation series and an all-around cool guy. In this episode I talk with him about how he became an animator.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

Alan's YouTube channel

Alan's animation tutorial channel

12 Principles of Animation series

Alan's Patreon page

Digital Tutors

Gnomon Workshop

Video Co-Pilot

Crash Course

Thought Cafe - After Effects animation timelapse

8-bit Spirited Away bath house

Primitive 3D video using Kinects

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If you want to get a better grade on your next test or quiz, you should write a number between 1 and 5 beside each question. This episode will explain why.

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Things mentioned in this episode:

Justin's article explaining his research on changing answers and confidence tracking

My video on changing test answers

Endowment bias

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Monty Hall Problem

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