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  • Study Skill #2: What is it that I don’t understand?

    Thomas Frank, the self-proclaimed “College Info Geek”, recommends a tactic from Dale Corson, a former President of Cornell Univeristy. He advised students to work through their problem one sentence at a time, asking: “What is that I don’t understand?”. This allows the students to be able to point to exactly what they don’t understand when…

  • Study Skill #1: Visualization

    I have been learning about how to study more effectively. For the next few blog posts, I would like to look at some of the things I learned. The first is using visualization for memorizing things. I got the idea from a TED talk where they said to attach something you want to memorize, a…

  • Hello. I am Josh. I am a Recovering Productivity Junkie

    I like to read productivity books. In fact, most of the books I read are either on productivity, habits or personal finance. I have a list of my favorites that will likely show up as a blog post in the near future. Recently, I realized I’ve read so much looking to “fix” my life and…

  • Put The Reps In.

    If you have been following my blog, you might remember me quoting James Clear talking about a study where there were two groups of photography students. Group A was the “quality group”. They had to produce was one photo for the entire semester. It had to be a great photo, their best work. Group B…

  • The Big 3

    In Michael Hyatt’s book Free To Focus, he talks about coming up with his “Big 3” for the week. He looks at all he needs to do for the week and eliminates some, automates some and delegates some. With what he has left, he assigns some to the “back burner” list, things he needs or…

  • Basic Transitions in Shotcut

    Here is a video showing how to do basic transitions in Shotcut to make your videos look smoother:

  • PSA: If you have access to your doctor’s notes, read them.

    I setup my “My Health” portal for my medical network and was intrigued to find my Neurologist’s notes from my last appointment. I found a summary of what he thinks is causing my muscle weakness and was able to do a little bit of Google-ing to find more information about the specific terms he was…

  • When We Do Hard Things.

    When we do hard things, we learn about ourselves and the world we live in. When we do hard things, we get stronger. When we do hard things, we can take on bigger challenges if we just keep our eyes open and learn. This month, I was worked on a hard thing. I was working…

  • Introduction to the Shotcut Video Editor.

    I had a realization early this morning. How much time had I spent in the last month watching videos about video production? Hours. How many videos had I produced? Zero. Here’s the first this month. An introduction to Shotcut, my favorite video editor.

  • Write Poorly. Fail often.

    Write poorly until you can write well. Fail until you can succeed. Start with what is easy and work to what is hard. I would like to take a look at what it like to write poorly, why it matters and how you can apply writing poorly to other areas of life. I love when…