Experts say if you want to harness sleep’s problem-solving powers to the fullest, think about your dilemma just before bed Illustration: Kieran Blakey Thomas Edison appreciated a good midday snooze, and the great inventor’s quirky napping routine has become legend. By most accounts, Edison liked to settle into a comfortable chair with a ball bearing in each hand, and metal pie pans at his feet. After dozing for a while,
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Laziness Does Not Exist
Let’s look at a sign of academic “laziness” that I believe is anything but: procrastination. People love to blame procrastinators for their behavior. Putting off work sure looks lazy, to an untrained eye. Even the people who are actively doing the procrastinating can mistake their behavior for laziness. You’re supposed to be doing something, and you’re not doing it — that’s a moral failure right? That means you’re weak-willed, unmotivated,

On the Importance of Self-check
If you are working with texts, details, numbers, and your mistakes may result in wrong decisions and have financial implications, read this post. 1. Complete your work and only then proof-read or check it. While writing or working with numbers, your brain is in creative or computational mode. Let it flow rather than switch it in the auditing mode. 2. Interruptions are hard to avoid. When they do happen, make