You may be smart, talented, and curious, and yet fail to achieve what some of your less illustrious peers have… if you aren’t gritty. You may have high IQ, and yet finish your school/ college with a low GPA… if…

More than 90 percent of American High School students and nearly 70 percent of college students are chronically sleep deprived, resulting in academic and health consequences. If you’re like most, then you too are getting far less sleep than recommended…

Have you worked on some important goal for months and years, but didn’t make much headway, stayed at an average level? Fitness. Studies. Financial goals. A skill. Few, on the other hand, achieve their goals in the same or shorter…

If you’re finding it difficult to deal with depression in college or high school, if you think you’re the unfortunate one, and, worse, if you feel life is not worth living, then watch this video. Bit longish (nearly 15 minutes),…

As a student, there is lot to learn from the Chinese bamboo. As a beginner, when you shoot basketballs to the hoop, solve calculus problems, or perform in front of an audience, you typically meet with disappointment. Progress, often, is…

What is deliberate practice? For the uninitiated, deliberate practice is a focused form of practice wherein you proactively look for improvement in whichever craft you’re trying to become better. Deliberate practice was first advocated by Anders Ericsson, who suggested that…

Sunlight is better known for synthesis of vitamin D in our bodies and for improving our moods. But what is less appreciated is that it can also make us more productive. If you study in sunlight (not direct exposure, though),…

International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is unarguably the toughest pre-college test in mathematics. (You’ll see plenty of examples in this post to illustrate this point.) And it’s also the oldest – the first IMO was held in Romania in 1959 –…

You think you’re studying/ working ten hours a day. What if I tell you, you aren’t. You may be putting in hours by the clock, but the output – and that’s what matters, right? – may be equivalent of just…

Morning. You take the seat in your favorite corner. Today you’re determined to knock off the work you’ve been procrastinating on for almost a week. However, just before starting, you decide to check your inbox. You check, and you don’t…