Brain, Emotional intelligence
Don’t you just love Genius Thinking? So what do two yellow chairs, a comic book and an oil spill have in common? At first glance you may think….. nothing! Ah, but not so! Let me explain… I just love lateral, creative, out of the box, problem solving genius thinking… and [...]
Emotional intelligence, General
Why I’ll remember the poppies As you know, I help a lot of people learn how to learn – that’s to say, how to absorb and then retain information so that they not only pass their exams easily, but still have the information at their fingertips beyond the exam. I [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning
Is your child struggling at school? Before I talk about ‘the kids of today’ I want to mention that we caught ourselves on Grand Designs again last Monday, while looking for University Challenge. Sorry, I didn’t realise it was going to be on, or I’d have told you. The programme [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence
It’s reckoned that within the last few decades, we’ve had to get used to dealing with four times more going on at a time. That’s a huge jump! It’s not that I’ve got ADHD, it’s just ooh look there’s a squirrel…! Do you too, watch TV while checking your emails, [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence
Distracted pilots deliver their passengers an hour late. I expect they just wanted to finish off what they were doing on the computer… So are Pilotless planes safer for passengers than the combination of automated systems and human operators, who get distracted from time to time? The US Air Force’s Global [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
You need all of the following traits to be a good learner. Consistency and determination have you repeat experiences, over and over, each time reinforcing the memory and learning process. Sufficiency and creativity allow detailed and thorough encoding in the brain. Focus and curiosity direct your attention. Without attention, you [...]
Emotional intelligence, General
I’m relieved about the outcome of the vote. How about you? You might have enjoyed the little border control prank set up near Jedburgh. The jokers hoped that regardless of our differences of opinions, we could all at least share a laugh! Here’s wishing you and yours a peaceful, united [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Many congratulations to the 352,590 students who discovered this week that they’ve got the ‘A’ Level exam grades they need to go to their first choice universities. “Alex got into his first choice university today – so thank you.” There have been several proud parents who’ve thanked me for helping [...]
Emotional intelligence
Corrie fans will appreciate the frustration and heartache, of the currently incarcerated, Peter Barlow, portrayed by actor Chris Gascoyne. This is the bloke who committed bigamy (and somehow got away with it! That’s TV for you! Don’t try this at home!), is an alcoholic, keeps swapping girlfriends/wives (what do they [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
How organised and methodical are you in your revision? Do you know what topics you’ve already learnt and what topics you need to focus on next? Are you keeping a record of what you need to test yourself on, and when, so that you retain the information you’ve learnt? If you’ve [...]
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