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The Art of Activity Innovation: How to Be Impressive Without an Impressive Amount of Work - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

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The Power of Innovation At the core of the Zen Valedictorian philosophy is the idea that if you really understand the psychology of impressiveness, you can, in effect, hack your image -- making yourself outrageously impressive without having to become outrageously hard working. I introduced two techniques for achieving this goal. The first, focus, stated

The Power of Innovation At the core of the Zen Valedictorian philosophy is the idea that if you really understand the psychology of impressiveness, you can, in effect, hack your image — making yourself outrageously impressive without having to become outrageously hard working. I introduced two techniques for achieving this goal. The first, focus, stated that becoming very good at one thing was more impressive (and less time consuming) than becoming kind of good at many. The second technique, innovate, was more difficult to parse. It stated that any activity that made someone think &#8220

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