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What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

They tend to be more productive.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications."How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in," he said."If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.

Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

In a paper published recently, Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.

So we need to "design for productive failure" by building it into the learning process

To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as today's children become tomorrow's productive citizenry (公民).

Esperanto also has a highly productive system of constructing new words from old ones.

The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

No matter how boring it is now, education will help you be a productive member in society.

Recent studies show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.

So, get an early start and try to be as productive as possible before lunch.

The study showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not.

The two keepers are proud of their productive work.

You'll get in more questions, the discussion will be tailored to what you need most help on, and two-party communication is almost always more productive than committee work.

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

They're more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks.

We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.