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Maintaining a laboratory notebook » Colin Purrington

http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/labnotebooks Why you might want to keep a laboratory notebook To provide yourself with a complete record of why experiments were initiated and how they were performed. Your notebook also gives you a place to put the reams of data you collect and a place to paste the statistical outcomes and graphs that are generated from your analyses. Researchers who distribute their efforts across multiple notebooks, computer files, 3-ring binders, Post-Its, and scribbles on their palms are unlikely to be effective in the laboratory.
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Method of loci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace , is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium , Cicero 's De Oratore , and Quintilian 's Institutio oratoria ). It relies on memorized spatial relationships to establish, order and recollect memorial content. The term is most often found in specialised works on psychology , neurobiology and memory , though it was used in the same general way at least as early as the first half of the nineteenth century in works on rhetoric , logic and philosophy . [ 1 ] The method of loci is also commonly called the mental walk. In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information. Many memory contest champions claim to use this technique in order to recall faces, digits, and lists of words.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/05/24/top-40-useful-sites-to-learn-new-skills/ The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time.
I've long been overwhelmed by an unwieldy list of goals that would sit, unaccomplished, in a long-term to-do list year after year. Then I came across a simple trick that solved my chronic problem. As gimmicky as it may sound, I'm now accomplishing everything I'd been putting off in just an hour a day. http://lifehacker.com/5886128/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fixed-my-procrastination-problem

How Seinfeld's Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. [ 1 ] The technique uses a timer to break down periods of work into 25-minute intervals called 'Pomodoros' (from the Italian word for 'tomatoes') separated by breaks. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts. [ 2 ] The method is based on the idea that frequent breaks can improve mental agility. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The stages of planning, tracking, recording, processing and visualizing are fundamental to the technique.

Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” Ben Sweetland Phew it’s been a while … :) I quit the job at my own company now and looked to start something new and make sense of how the personal and spiritual growth fits together. One nagging issue I had was the seemingly conflict between the drive to success and spiritual being – I posted about it several times, not only on this blog … and I want to give some insights about this topic that I realized over the last view weeks: A New View on Success http://www.myrkothum.com/spirituality-and-the-drive-to-success/

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How to Improve Your Planning Ability

http://www.golemweb.com/biztools/Bus_contract/topics/m8p.htm P l anning is written about and talked about more than it is done. Here are some ideas that will encourage you to plan your activities in advance. Anticipate possible problems you could encounter in your project because of people, material, or mechanical failures. Purposely provide preventive actions and contingency plans in important high risk situations.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/50-tricks-to-get-things-done-faster-better-and-more-easily.html We all want to get stuff done, whether it’s the work we have to do so we can get on with what we want to do, or indeed, the projects we feel are our purpose in life. To that end, here’s a collection of 50 hacks, tips, tricks, and mnemonic devices I’ve collected that can help you work better. Most Important Tasks (MITs): At the start of each day (or the night before) highlight the three or four most important things you have to do in the coming day.

50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily

Skills Converged > Attention to Detail Exercise: What Was in The Box?

Exercise Similarity Analysis helps you to find the training activities you are looking for quicker than ever before by letting you follow clusters of similar exercises. Our Similarity Algorithm can accurately spot exercises in the collection which are similar to the one you are currently reading. These are shown in order of similarity at the end of each training activity. Following clusters of exercises can inspire you to find better exercises suitable for your specific training needs. We are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for you to find what you want. Please let us know about your views on this or other features. http://www.skillsconverged.com/FreeTrainingMaterials/tabid/258/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/823/Attention-to-Detail-Exercise-What-Was-in-The-Box.aspx
Close attention to detail is a necessary part of completing many tasks and projects. Whether you are assembling a bookcase at home or tabulating employee time sheets at work, the ability to concentrate on important details is essential for achieving greater success in life. Many work tasks require close attention to detail, as do projects in educational settings. To become more detail oriented, find ways to increase your focus and concentration. Here are ways to improve attention to detail.

How to Improve Attention to Detail - wikiHow

What useful bookmarklets do you use? - Web Applications

Here's my own bookmarklet for all Stack Exchange sites: This code will show your upvote count for all tags that appear in your user page's top tags section. It should work on any Stack Exchange site you are logged in on (but I've only tested it on Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow). Unfortunately there is a bug in the tag synonym redirection logic that will keep this script from working with tag synonyms.
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