Time Management

Ryder Carroll: Bullet Journaling Transformed His Severe Childhood ADHD

Carroll overcame his executive-function struggles to become an accomplished digital product designer and art director leading projects for Adidas, American Express, IBM, HP, a...

Joshua Foer: Winning the US Memory Championship Through Memory Palaces

In March 2006, after one year of deliberate practice, Foer won the U.S. Memory Championship and set a new U.S. national record by memorizing a shuffled deck of 52 playing card...

David Allen: Using the GTD Workflow to Clear Clutter Across 35 Jobs

Allen eliminated his chronic anxiety and mental clutter, transforming into the world's premier authority on organizational workflow. After testing the method with managers at ...

Barbara Oakley: With Brain Retraining, She Conquered Her Fear of Math

Oakley earned a B.S. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering, becoming Professor of Engineering at Oaklan...

Francesco Cirillo: With 25-Minute Work Blocks, He Ended Procrastination

Cirillo completely cured his procrastination, condensed twelve hours of distracted study into four hours of hyper-focused daily progress, passed his university exams with hono...

Anthony Trollope: With 15-Minute Sprints, He Wrote 47 Classic Novels

Trollope became one of the most prolific, celebrated, and commercially successful novelists in English history, publishing 47 novels (including the Barsetshire and Palliser se...

Benjamin Franklin: A 13-Virtue Ledger Engineered His Character

The virtue ledger transformed Franklin from an abrasive, indebted artisan into one of history's most versatile polymaths. It enabled him to achieve financial independence by a...