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How to Force Your Brain To Be Motivated (when you don’t feel like it)

Justin Sung · 2 min read

Motivation doesn’t have to be a daily mood swing to get work done. A four-step method called “defuse” aims to help people keep acting on goals even...

MotivationBurnoutThought-Action Defusion

How To Get Out Of A Mental Rut

Better Than Yesterday · 3 min read

A mental rut is a temporary state of feeling stuck, purposeless, and unable to motivate yourself—often showing up suddenly and lasting days or even...

Mental RutBurnoutExercise

Are You Lazy? Or Are You Just Tired? - Know The Difference

Better Than Yesterday · 2 min read

Feeling “lazy” can mean two very different things: a lack of willingness to work, or a depleted system that can’t keep performing. The core...

Laziness vs ExhaustionBurnoutSelf-Discipline

Why Do We Feel Tired All The Time?

Mariana Vieira · 2 min read

Feeling tired all the time often comes down to how attention gets split. When people juggle multiple tasks—whether by “multitasking” in the moment or...

Multitasking vs Single-TaskingTask SwitchingShort-Term Memory

If you feel behind in life, please watch this video...

Justin Sung · 3 min read

A burnout-prone feeling of “falling behind” often isn’t caused by a lack of effort—it’s caused by using the wrong upgrade path for recurring...

Infinite StaircaseBurnoutLearning Systems

Things you don't want to say out loud in academia [8 embarrassing admissions]

Andy Stapleton · 2 min read

Academia runs on unspoken incentives that can quietly reward misconduct, self-deception, and burnout—while discouraging honesty. One recurring theme...

Academic IntegrityPublishing PressureGrant Incentives

VISUAL SUMMARY: Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal - The Periodic Table of Productivity

Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management · 3 min read

Feel-good productivity is built around a simple premise: playfulness and positive emotion aren’t distractions from getting things done—they can make...

Feelgood ProductivityPeriodic TableProcrastination

DITCH Hard Productivity → Do this Instead

Mariana Vieira · 3 min read

Hard productivity—built on rigid schedules, endless task lists, and prescriptive “systems”—often backfires by burning people out and eroding trust in...

Soft ProductivityBurnoutDecision Fatigue

Why I'm Not Setting Objectives in Obsidian in 2024

Nicole van der Hoeven · 3 min read

After a year of intense travel, publishing, and content creation, Nicole van der Hoeven says the OKR-style goal system she used in Obsidian...

BurnoutOKRsYearly Themes

The Harsh Reality of a PhD in 8 Stages—Told with Food

Andy Stapleton · 3 min read

A PhD tends to move through eight predictable emotional phases—starting with wide-eyed excitement and ending in quiet relief—while the day-to-day...

PhD StagesImpostor SyndromeBurnout

How to Deal with Burnout as a PhD Student - Coping with Stress

Ciara Feely · 3 min read

Burnout in PhD life isn’t just “being tired”—it’s a mix of emotional depletion, detachment from work, and a sense of falling short, often driven by...

BurnoutPhD StressStress Physiology

2021 Writing Wrap-Up + 2022 Writing Goals (except I have none oops)

ShaelinWrites · 3 min read

2021 ended up being a year of writing “stasis” for ShaelinWrites—less about producing new work and more about editing, burnout recovery, and managing...

Writing Wrap-UpWord CountsShort Fiction

Why Time Management Doesn’t Work (And Never Really Did)

Mariana Vieira · 2 min read

Time management is widely sold as the fix for procrastination and low productivity, but the core claim here is that it rarely delivers—because it...

Time ManagementBurnoutPriorities