Emotional intelligence, Learning
I received a phone call recently from an A-level student panicking that she only had two weeks before her first exam. She felt ill-prepared and anxious about the time she’d wasted. She spent a good 10 minutes explaining why she was in a pickle – What she had done, what [...]
Studying Techniques
Ask me what I think of organic food and you might get the full 10 minute tirade! I am absolutely beside myself with rage that it is necessary for us to differentiate between one lot of food and another lot purporting to be unadulterated. What are they doing to the [...]
Studying Techniques
You can’t think straight when you’re stressed and anxious. You’re not supposed to think straight when you’re stressed and anxious! Physiologically, we Human beings are pretty much the same as we were 10,000 years ago when we lived in caves. You can imagine just how important it was to our [...]
Brain, Health
A couple of million years ago, as the rain forests shrank and the food supply collapsed with it, early man began to do a lot less climbing and a lot more walking, specifically across the African savannas, searching for food and shelter as they went. It is believed that men [...]
Studying Techniques
I expect you know how important water is to our bodies. But I wonder if you know just how important it is. The brain is made up of nearly 80% water. Your brain can’t function properly when it’s not sufficiently hydrated. An average person needs to drink around 2 L [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Another name for discovering a part of the house that urgently needs cleaning just when you had planned to knuckle down to revising for your Project Management exams, is procrastination! It comes under the heading of avoidance activities. We’ve all been there! We were just going to sit down to [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
How does an untidy, disorganised environment make you feel? Is it conducive to concentration and clarity? No, of course it isn’t. If you are working your socks off, revising hard to achieve something important, such as passing your ITIL exams, isn’t it a shame to undermine that effort in any [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Ever found yourself falling asleep during long study sessions? Human beings have evolved with short attention spans! That won’t come as a great surprise to many people! But I wonder how many people allow for this when revising? It’s very unlikely that you can maximise your efficiency when studying for [...]
Learning
Those of us who have been brought up by parents who experienced the austerity during and after World War II, are familiar with the idea that it is wrong to waste paper. Indeed, if you are a baby boomer (born roughly between 1946 and 1964) the chances are that at [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
A while ago I had a telephone call from someone enquiring about MindMaps. He had heard that MindMaps were useful for creating study notes and he rang me to find out if I knew somebody who would make his MindMaps for him. In other words, he wanted somebody to go [...]
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