Economist outlines work on managing tasks and time
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," said Samuel Johnson, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Most of us, spared such an imperative, carry on in a less-concentrated state, but it holds that of limited time, energy, and money, time is the one of which no one can muster more. Add in, as the year draws to a close, exams, papers, holiday shopping, and travel, and the demands on us multiply. If things get tight enough, an already unquiet mind suffers.