5 Questions: Unambitious Friends, Money Saving Strategies, & the Pomodoro Technique (Ep. 122)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this 5 questions episode, we talk about whether your friends are ruining your productivity, how to manage savings goals, and how to choose a direction for your personal brand. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Portia spider The Pomodoro Technique Tomighty Heli Attack 2 The Procrastination Equation, by Dr. Steel Piers Procrastination Equation article on LessWrong 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by Thomas Frank Jedi Councils – No Star Wars Spoilers, I Promise (Ep. 89) Stress Strategy: How to Use Stress to Your Advantage (Ep. 119) The Happiness Equation, by Neil Pasricha The Happiness Equation (Ep. 117) Mint Protect Your Savings with a Spending Firewall Budgeting Guide Betterment Listen Money Matters Podcast Starting a Franchise with Laura Novak Little Nest Portraits Photography courses on udemy Photography courses on Lynda.com Stuck In Customs Photography courses on Stuck In Customs World Domination Summit The Fizzle Show Nerd Fitness Smart Passive Income Marques Brownlee on YouTube Marques Brownlee on Twitter The Complete, Step-By-Step Guide To Creating A Successful Blog The Ultimate Guide to Building a Personal Website Fizzle 5 week free trial Precision Dance Pads 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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0:41.5	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:46.5	I'm here once again with my good friend Martin.
0:48.2	What's up, dude?
0:49.2	Yo.com.
0:50.3	What's up?
0:51.1	We are standing today. Yeah, and you know, I just realized we are standing and they call you up on the Skype right here. Yeah, where's weird? Where's your Skype on here? I need to set you as a favorite. I don't know. I'm like bugged.
1:03.4	Add your favorites already. Add to favorites. Well, you're always a favorite in my book.
1:07.3	It's not on Skype. Ouch. I don't even know. I'm sorry, bro. I don't even know how to set that up. I'm bad at Skype. Well, you call and then you mute the microphone and then I move the monitor. This new computer setup is freaking bawler. I didn't think the monitor arms would
1:28.0	I thought they would be useful but I was almost a little bit thinking that they were just a little bit aesthetic and
1:34.3	and frivolous yeah but no they're actually quite useful so I'm pretty jealous right now
1:41.1	yeah I'm gonna have this desk tomorrow yeah. Yeah. This is your is your hashtag
1:45.4	goals hashtag set up goals. Yeah. We're gonna do a five questions today but
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