by Mike & Roy | Feb 17, 2019 | Productivity, Book Summaries
Part of our Book Summary series where we share notes from our favorite books. Read more details and reviews for The Effective Executive on Amazon. This is one of our favorite books on productivity. It’s not about working more efficiently; it’s about...
by Mike & Roy | Dec 9, 2018 | Productivity
Conventional wisdom says that classical music improves learning. Researchers even coined the Mozart effect to describe the potential increase in spatial-temporal reasoning while listening to Mozart’s music. However, there’s an entire category of music that gets...
by Mike & Roy | Apr 27, 2018 | Productivity
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” -Will Durant We feel that most of our choices are the product of our own calculated decision-making. (As actuaries, we take special pride in this rational decision-making ability.) However,...
by Mike & Roy | Apr 8, 2018 | Productivity, General Study Tips
“Time-of-day effects can explain 20 percent of the variance in human performance on work tasks.” In his book When: The Science of Perfect Timing, Daniel Pink addresses how timing affects our lives, including tips for productivity. We summarized ideas from Pink’s book...
