Cal Newport is an MIT grad who blogs about knowledge worker productivity.  I recently came across Cal’s blog and it seems to have a lot of good research based productivity advice.  I’ll post more if I find anything interesting to us language learners.

In The Science of Procrastination Revisted: Researchers Rethink Willpower is one article I came across that says that basically we are more engaged in what we are doing if we set the rules ourselves compared to someone else telling us how to do things.  This makes a lot of sense.

Procrastination remains inevitable. But the hope provided by Ryan and Deci is that for many activities it’s allure can be weakened. When you’re doing something that you choose to do, it’s just not that bad.