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Calm productivity for academics
Tag: habits
Use research projects to build academic skills
Design small research projects, structured around the features of deliberate practice, to help build academic skills.
Set up your environment to make it harder to work from home
What would you do if you couldn’t work from home? One of the biggest benefits of being an academic is that you can work anywhere, any time. And one of the biggest problems with being an academic, is that you end up working everywhere, all the time. But imagine getting home in the evening and…
Paul Silvia: How to write a lot
How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia is a practical guide for academics struggling to boost their writing productivity. Silvia emphasizes disciplined scheduling, self-monitoring, and overcoming perfectionism to make writing a consistent part of one’s routine. His strategies empower scholars to publish more without compromising personal time.
Strategy drives outcomes
If you want your productivity output to change, then your habits, routines, and workflow need to change. Strategy drives outcomes.
Sustainable academic productivity
Sustainable academic productivity isn’t about working harder, but creating effortless systems. Rather than pushing yourself to exhaustion, learn how to build low-effort habits and routines that maintain productivity even on low-energy days. Transform your workflow by focusing on small, incremental steps that lead to lasting success.
James Clear: Atomic habits
Atomic Habits explores how tiny changes can lead to remarkable personal transformations. Using a four-step method—cue, craving, response, and reward—Clear shows how to design productive habits and eliminate negative ones. This book offers academics practical tools for sustaining progress in high-stakes, fast-paced environments.
Work-life balance can fuel innovation
The academic myth promotes an imbalanced life consumed by work. However, discipline in life breeds creativity in work. Structured lives allow academics the mental space for innovation. The key is a work-life balance that cultivates a well-rested mind, ready for meaningful academic contributions.
Boost your academic writing productivity with this simple approach
Discover how reading and writing habits can boost your academic writing productivity. While many academics struggle to find time for writing amidst their responsibilities, the solution may be straightforward: read more, and write more. Learn practical strategies for embedding these essential practices into your academic workflow.
Excellent work is mundane
What looks like excellent work from the outside is simply a commitment to small, iterative improvements in practice over time.
Use small routines to build good habits
Building good habits when you’re short on time means that you reduce the scope of what you want to do, but stick to the schedule. James Clear (2018). Atomic Habits. Building a habit means that you integrate the activity into your daily routine, even if you can’t do the activity at the scale you’d like.…
Writing is the work: Rethinking the academic writing process
Many academics view writing as the final step of research – something to do after the ‘real work’ is done. But the academic writing process is not just about documenting completed work. Writing is thinking, and engaging with writing throughout your project helps clarify ideas and strengthen your research outcomes.