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 [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
One day I had an anxious person on the ‘phone telling me their ITIL exam was next Tuesday and they hadn’t even taken their course manual out of its cellophane wrapping yet. Was there anything I could do to help them? He and I both knew that there was a [...]
Studying Techniques
A hundred years ago, when I was revising for my A-levels, I remember tackling my biology for the first time. I guess, maybe like you, I was never taught how to revise, but just muddled through somehow year after year. Anyway, I distinctly remember having the idea that ‘making notes’ [...]
Studying Techniques
Just think about it for a moment. How does anything get done? I mean, of all the things that you get done in a day, what do they have in common? I bet the things you do are the routine things, the things you always do. I bet they are [...]
Studying Techniques
Lined paper encourages you to write in a linear fashion from left to right, starting at the beginning of the line and not moving onto the next until you have filled the one before. It doesn’t encourage you to use symbols, shape, colour, space, bullet points, numbers, pictures etc – [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
A while back, I delivered a Genius Material study skills presentation in a particular company, that had several employees taking CISCO Accreditation exams. I delivered the presentation twice, in the morning to one group and in the afternoon to a second group. There was one member of the audience in [...]
Studying Techniques
Would it surprise you to know that there is only one difference between people who pass exams, such as Chartered exams, easily and people who struggle? And don’t you go thinking that it’s all about intelligence! It’s not. It’s all about having an effective revision strategy. People who pass Chartered [...]
Emotional intelligence, Memory
Your brain automatically tends to let go of older information in favour of more recent information. On top of that your brain filters out information based on what it believes to be important in the moment, in other words what’s important to your survival. So even though you are receiving [...]
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