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Laura Vanderkam

Дата рождения: 1978

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Laura Vanderkam is an American author and speaker specializing in time management and productivity. She is best known for books such as 168 Hours, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, and Tranquility by Tuesday. Her work, featured in major publications, and her podcasts have influenced discussions on work-life balance and personal productivity.

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Laura Vanderkam, born in 1978, is an American author, journalist, and speaker renowned for her expertise in time management and productivity. Raised with a strong academic foundation, she graduated from Princeton University in 2001, where her early fascination with writing and the patterns of high achievers began to take shape. After college, she embarked on her writing career with a formative year-long internship at the op-ed page of USA Today, eventually transitioning into freelance journalism in New York. This period was instrumental, exposing her to the choices and schedules of accomplished professionals and sowing the seeds for her later focus on how people allocate time.

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Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation
-I Know How She Does It
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You don’t build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible
-I Know How She Does It
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Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it
-I Know How She Does It
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The discipline of joy requires holding in the mind simultaneously that this too shall pass and that this too is good. This alchemy of mind isn't easy, but the good life is not always the easy life. Happiness requires effort
-Off the Clock
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Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges
-What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
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This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there
-168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
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Calling something 'work' doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time
-Off the Clock
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We overestimate the things we don't want to do and underestimate the things we do want to do
-15 reflections on 15 years of 168 Hours
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We all have the same amount of time but spend it differently. How we think about time changes how we perceive it
-Ep. 56: Off the Clock with Laura Vanderkam
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The key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater
-TED Talk: How to Gain Control of Your Free Time

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"Laura Vanderkam is an American author, speaker and blogger known for her expertise in time management"

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"Laura Vanderkam’s books on productivity have appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune"

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"Laura Vanderkam's TED talk 'How to gain control of your free time' has been viewed more than 12 million times"

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"Laura Vanderkam is a nationally recognized journalist and speaker who helps people spend more time on what matters and less on what doesn't"

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"Laura Vanderkam's '168 Hours' is a fun, inspiring, and practical guide that will help men and women of any age, lifestyle, or career"

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"Laura Vanderkam draws on 18 years of working from home to share strategies for productivity, creativity, and health"

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"Laura Vanderkam is the author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time"

The Art Of

"Laura Vanderkam is a frequent contributor to Fast Company’s website and a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors"

Indiana Academy

"Laura Vanderkam is an expert on time management who shares her techniques with audiences of busy people everywhere"

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