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If this remains perplexing to parents, a different way to frame and perhaps appreciate the mismatch is this: asking your teenage son or daughter to go to bed and fall asleep at ten p.m. is the circadian equivalent of asking you, their parent, to go to sleep at seven or eight p.m. No matter how loud you enunciate the order, no matter how much that teenager truly wishes to obey your instruction, and no matter what amount of willed effort is applied by either of the two parties, the circadian rhythm of a teenager will not be miraculously coaxed into a change. Furthermore, asking that same teenager to wake up at seven the next morning and function with intellect, grace, and good mood is the equivalent of asking you, their parent, to do the same at four or five a.m.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Deconstruction: How small can I break things down into their basic units of learning, such as individual vocabulary words or grammatical rules? Selection: What are the 20 percent of those units that will give me 80 percent of the benefits (Pareto’s Principle)? Sequencing: What is the best order in which to learn these units? Stakes: How can I use psychology or social pressure to condense my timelines and push myself to learn faster?
The Only Skill That Matters
Jonathan A. Levi
Motivation 2.0 still wasn’t exactly ennobling. It suggested that, in the end, human beings aren’t much different from livestock—that the way to get us moving in the right direction is by dangling a crunchier carrot or wielding a sharper stick. But what this operating system lacked in enlightenment, it made up for in effectiveness. It worked well—extremely well. Until it didn’t.
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