Brain

Food for thought

Here’s food for thought, for you… Did you know, that eating oily fish is good for you? Yes, of course you did! But, did you know that eating oily fish just once a week can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 60%? Bet you didn’t know that! Well, [...]

General

Don’t bugger up your soufflé!

“Not all children have the type of dreamy, social, easy fun time that we all wish for them to have at school. Instead some have a really hard time because they are just a little bit individual. Lysette introduced a number of skills our son was able to use to [...]

Brain, Emotional intelligence, General

Who are you this week?

It might seem like a strange question, except that who we are – changes over time. Not a lot of people know that! The environment continually shapes and changes the neural networks in our brains that make us who we are. And how we process the information reaching our brains [...]

Brain, General

Don’t you go changing!

OMG TESLA! OK! So now I’m going to sound like an advert for the new Tesla electric car. I’m not on commission, honest! But, just like Genius Material, it’s an absolute game changer. A ‘disrupter’. Changing gear… In a week that heard VW admitting they’d fiddled their emissions data, and [...]

General, Learning

Genius Material is the Missing Link!

Genius Material: “Really important missing link to help students change exam failure into success.” Brian Hipkin, Dean of Students, Regents University The Missing Link? Couldn’t agree more!! And how wonderful to hear such a thing here, of all places –  where, since 2004, I’ve undertaken many Quest Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Learning Skills NLP [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Learning

Grand Designs & Genius Material

 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 [...]

Learning

7 Tips for successful revision

1. Spend enough time with the information for your brain to make a pattern of it. 2. Make your notes in a form your brain likes, so it can see the patterns and relationships. 3. Revisit your revision according to the Learning Cycle. 4. Split your revision into short chunks. [...]

Studying Techniques

What to do when your revision isn’t working

If you feel your CISCO Accreditation revision strategy has room for improvement and you’re tired of wasting your time doing things that don’t work, and you just want to cut to the chase and get the job done efficiently, then have a look at the many Genius Material options developed [...]

Studying Techniques

Biggest revision mistakes – Not using Genius Material

People who pass Project Management exams, financial exams and other professional exams have a revision strategy that works for them. And that’s it! That’s all there is to it. If you want to pass exams and currently you are struggling to do so, then it’s simply an indication that your [...]

Studying Techniques

Reading and re-reading your course manual

I’m horrified to hear that some trainers and teachers suggest that to study for exams, you need to read and re-read your textbook.Anyone who’s tried this and has found that they repeatedly ‘come to’, realising each time that they haven’t taken in a single word of the last paragraph, and [...]