5 Questions: Motivation Management, Sketchy Websites, and Why We Read Nonfiction (Ep. 127)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about whether you should read nonfiction, which sites you can trust when doing research, and how to bounce back after losing focus. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Orthoptera Ornithopter The College Info Geek Community Volatyl Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It's The Best Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, by John McWhorter Blinkist Good to Great, by Jim Collins Deep Work, by Cal Newport The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg The Science Behind How Fast Humans Can Read Elizabeth Schotter's 31 page research article on speed reading Philosophy and Love and Stuff (Ep. 107) The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius The Science Behind Getting Better Sleep (Ep. 124) Philips sunrise alarm clock Can Music Be Designed to Enhance Your Brain’s Performance? Brain.fm Good Calories, Bad Calories The American Dollar - Signaling Through The Flames Ultimate Study Music Playlist Tom's reading challenge The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss (but read The Name of the Wind first) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Neal Stephenson books The Motivation Hacker, by Nick Winter Beeminder FinCon Productivity Hacks with My Friend Mike Vardy of Productivityist (Ep. 39) Pendulum Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Will those bugs call again?
0:35.0	Orthopterons?
0:37.0	Orthopterons. I want to know
0:38.0	Ornithopter...
0:40.0	I want to see what it looks like. It's like r t h h o r t h oth t e rhe othopterians that I spell it right I don't know.
0:53.0	Orthopterans.
0:55.0	That's the one.
0:56.0	Crickets, grasshoppers, cave crickets, Jerusalem critics.
0:59.0	Crickets.
1:00.0	Jerusalem.
1:01.0	I hate those critics from Jerusalem.
1:04.0	Crickets, Catedd's Webilut, Lutter, there's a lot of them, and locusts.
1:09.5	Yep.
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