Word: jot
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...During the semester, I’ll scan the headlines of nytimes.com in the middle of my Cold War class when suddenly I have to jot down notes on the importance of The Partisan Review, and I need to respond to this IM from my boyfriend asking about our dinner plans—and oh, I have to e-mail the teaching fellow sitting across from me to ask for an extension on the take-home midterm. And class is over, I have a social life and an overdue paper to attend to, and sectional strife in the Middle East...
...length of meetings, have people stand, because they won't waste as much time on digressions if they're not seated. Check e-mail hourly at most to preserve your concentration. Keep your packing list taped inside your suitcase to avoid losing it or having to regularly redraft it. Jot down or text-message yourself about each day's happiest moments so you'll have a detailed record to review and savor...
...composer, had blown his brains out. That "coup" did not make him feel especially proud. "A trained monkey can do it," says the tabloid lensman. "This is not photography. It's waiting around in a car. It starts getting on my nerves..." Then, he quickly corrects himself: "Don't jot that down. You have to write I am a motivated, successful, young paparazzo who doesn't mind getting busted...
...make people feel good - and what they find bothersome. Many academics employ an older system that Csikszentmihalyi helped develop called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Subjects are beeped (via a pager or hand-held device) at random intervals during the day, usually every few hours, at which point they jot down what they're doing, who they're with and how they feel: bored or very much enjoying themselves...
...with just the junior employees like me, scurrying around preparing for the arrival of the seniors. I sit down and am greeted by an overflowing inbox. Before I even look at it, I have to check the foreign markets, some of which are already well into their day. I jot down some notes and try to make sense of the hundreds of numbers flashing across my computer screen. I smile as I see that Japan’s is up today, an indication that we too will have a strong...