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Calm productivity for academics
Tag: academic skills
Academic skill development: Excellence through deliberate practice
Most professionals have structured approaches to skill development, but academics often just do the work without deliberately improving their craft. Apply deliberate academic skill development practices to enhance your writing, reading, and analytical abilities – transforming routine tasks into opportunities for meaningful professional growth.
Use research projects to build academic skills
Design small research projects, structured around the features of deliberate practice, to help build academic skills.
Developing a systematic approach to academic skill development
Discover how academic skill development goes beyond mere experience. Learn the four essential elements of expertise development and how to apply them to crucial academic skills like writing, email management, and meeting facilitation. Get practical strategies for creating your own expertise development system, even without institutional support.
Cal Newport: So good they can’t ignore you
In So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport argues that true career satisfaction comes from building rare, valuable skills rather than “following your passion.” For academics, focusing on skill development rather than elusive passions fosters control, mission, and fulfillment in higher education careers, where impact and autonomy matter most.