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Improving sleep through mindful breathing exercises
Practicing stress reduction and relaxation techniques
Establishing a relaxing bedtime routine
Specialize
Every field has its standards. Once you’ve got the basics down, reach for a lesser known—but still needed at your office—skill or competency.
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Embrace conflict
Don’t create unnecessary conflict with your co-workers, but don’t run from it, either. See it as an opportunity to better understand someone you’ll be spending 40 hours a week around.
Chances are, the other person will respond the same way. Goodwill is taken for granted less often t...
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Ask for help
At first, asking for help might sound like the opposite of creating your own opportunities.
Opportunities are tied to personal relationships. Consider the Ben Franklin effect: By asking someone for a small favor, you endear them to yourself. The reason is that, when you help some...
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Be a mentor
As much as mentorship benefits the mentee, it can also be a professional boost for the mentor.
Mentoring others develops leadership and communication skills: Spotting strengths and weaknesses, explaining things diplomatically, and giving supportive advice are key to mentorship as well a...
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Valuable discoveries
At every company, how management thinks things get done and how they actually get done are two different things.
But while managers often have good reasons for pushing certain processes or products, sometimes they simply haven’t thought of the more efficient method.
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Choosing your own direction
In school, your teachers worked out a lesson plan and made sure you were aiming in the right direction. When you're teaching yourself, you have to do it yourself.
- Deconstruct and select: Every skill can be broken down into pieces. Find out what are the minimal learna...
The second pass: Grasp the content
Duration: Can take up to 1 hour.
Activity:
- Read the complete paper.
- Ignore details such as proofs or equations.
- Take some notes at the margins of the paper and write down the key points.
- Look at any type of illustration in the paper like tables and fig...
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