Studying & Learning How To Study: The Essay Memorisation Framework As a medical student, I did have to undertake some exams that required writing essays. One of the questions I often get asked is how you can apply techniques such
Business Building a Million Dollar Business – 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs Sharing my advice and experiences from starting my own business and the lessons I've learned.
Students How To Study: Using the Method of 'The Great Explainer' “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool” Richard Feynman When we’re studying, it can be easy to think
Useful Apps To Improve Productivity and Study Effectively With exam season rapidly approaching, I wanted to write a blog post just listing the best resources and apps that you can use to improve your productivity and efficiency and
3 Books That Changed My Life Reading is one of the hobbies that I’ve consciously tried to maintain over the past few years. I think a lot of people underestimate how much we can learn
Coronavirus – A Global Pandemic As you may have seen, on Wednesday evening, the new coronavirus outbreak has been officially characterised as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. The Director General said that “we
Coronavirus - The Basics By Ali Abdaal and Angus Parker I have to be honest - I've been ignoring the whole coronavirus news for the past couple of months. I knew that it had
How To Study: An Effective Learning Framework To 'STIC' With With spring just around the corner and winter fading away, thoughts are starting to turn towards a different season – that of exams. Being able to study in a way which
The Pomodoro Technique - The 'Tomato Inspired' Strategy to Improve Productivity The Pomodoro Technique is perhaps the simplest productivity and time-management strategy which we can all use – you don’t need any technical apps or sophisticated technology; all you need is
How To Study: The Power of Retrospective Revision Timetables Revision timetables are often praised as the best way to structure your time in a coherent, logical manner. It’s certainly true that they can have some benefits and I
How to Study: Spaced Repetition and My 'Magic' Spreadsheet System The amount of time we spend revising is always a controversial issue - some people prefer to downplay how much time they’ve spent revising whereas others are keen to
Revision How To Study: Active Recall - The ‘High Utility’ Technique You Should Be Using If rereading, highlighting and summarising aren’t effective methods of revising, then what should we be doing? The two most effective methods that I’ve come across are active recall
Studying & Learning How To Study: 3 Popular Revision Techniques You Should Avoid Revision is personal. How we revise, the techniques we use and the time we spend trying to revise will vary but we do all drift towards techniques that feel intuitively
A little more effort A few nights ago, I got home from work around 7pm. I was due to meetup with some fans (via my standing offer of coffee) which lasted until 9pm. I
Expand the Box In a recent podcast, my brother and I discussed the concepts of invisible shackles, the hidden scripts we follow through our lives. We discussed the analogy of The Box (ie:
Sleep is good I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts about the importance of sleep, and how we screw ourselves in the long run by compromising our sleep. As such, because it’
Pay Yourself First I was thinking today about the phrase ‘pay yourself first’. It’s one of the most important rules of personal finance. The idea is that whenever we get money coming
Window-openers vs Door-knockers I came across an analogy in a podcast this week that really resonated with me. It talked about how there are two types of people. Some are window-openers. When making
Chasing sirens I’m working on an iPhone camera comparison video that’s taking a ridiculous amount of time to edit. On Friday night, I’d pencilled out the evening to work
The Value of Delight In my tech review videos, I sometimes talk about The Value of Delight. It’s the idea that spending extra money to get an more delightful experience can be ‘worth
Obvious to you, amazing to others This week, I want to share a post written by Derek Sivers. I’d been following Derek online for several years (in a non-creepy way), and had the privilege of
The Concept of a Flywheel I came across the concept of a Flywheel this week. I read about it on a post called ‘The Flywheel of Wealth’ on the wonderful personal finance blog Get Rich
Life Advice A life-changing change to my lunchtime routine My life changed this week. I discovered the power of the Light Lunch. I’ve always been a Heavy Lunch kinda guy. For the past year, I’ve looked forward
Productivity How I stay productive at work I’ve been on-call as the psychiatry junior doctor this weekend. That’s involved leaving home at 8am each day and returning around 10:30pm each night. This is rather
Productivity The Power of Accountability Accountability is a powerful thing. Making a commitment to doing something and then holding ourselves accountable to others is one of the most useful tools in our motivation and productivity
