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 ā that of exams. Being able to study in a way which
How To Study: 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 ā you donāt 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. Itās 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 theyāve spent revising whereas others are keen to
Revision How To Study: Active Recall - The āHigh Utilityā Technique You Should Be Using If rereading, highlighting and summarising arenāt effective methods of revising, then what should we be doing? The two most effective methods that Iāve 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
Life Advice A life-changing change to my lunchtime routine My life changed this week. I discovered the power of the Light Lunch. Iāve always been a Heavy Lunch kinda guy. For the past year, Iāve looked forward
Productivity How I stay productive at work Iāve been on-call as the psychiatry junior doctor this weekend. Thatās 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
Life Advice Boring is Fun Occasionally I come across a blog post, book chapter or podcast episode that makes something click in my brain and I think ādamn thatās really goodā. This week, I
Reading How I remember what I read I like to think I read a lot of books (you can follow my Goodreads profile to see all my past/current books). But a major problem I have is remembering key insights from those books and actually applying them to my life.
Writing The acronym that changed how I write When writing these blog posts, I often run into writerās block. Confronted with a blank canvas on whatever writing app Iām trying that week, I sit like a
Chance encounters Iāve been on an āanaesthetics taster weekā this week. That means I get to spend 5 days shadowing doctors within the anaesthetics department, getting involved, trying to get an
How to become more confident Iāve become a much more confident person over these last few years. Partly thatās come from recognising that thereās no difference between fake confidence and real confidence,
Getting Our House In Order Last week, I made a mistake at work. My consultant asked me to check the dosing instructions of two anti-psychotic medications that a patient (āHarryā) had been given while he
Productivity The Power of Project Lists In the previous post, I wrote about The Inbox for your Brain. I talked about how I use the app Things to note down any idea / to-do on my mind.
Apps The Inbox for your Brain I want to share a quick productivity tip thatās been working wonders for me these past few weeks. In David Allenās Getting Things Done, he introduces the key
Life Advice Our own worst critics A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about The Reitoff Principle for Productivity. At the time, I thought the post was a load of shite - I had to
The joys of handwriting I recently bought a Leuchtterm notebook (after hearing Neil Gaimanās recommendation). Iāve been using it extensively for the past 3 days, and Iām very pleasantly surprised at
High-leverage housekeeping This week, my brother Taimur (who I host a weekly podcast with in case you havenāt heard) introduced me to the idea of high-leverage housekeeping. I like the idea,
3 minutes vs 3 months For the past 3 months, Iāve had an item on my to-do list thatās been taking up mental space and weighing me down emotionally. That item was to
Productivity The Reitoff Principle for Productivity As you might know, Iām a big fan of productivity, consistency, discipline and buzzwords. Often however, I find myself in a place where I canāt fully enjoy myself
Business Why everything is super low risk This week, I was listening to an episode of Gary Vaynerchukās podcast, in which he was interviewing Tim Ferriss. They were answering phone calls from listeners, many of whom
Life Advice Changing our perspective to make life more pleasant You know that feeling when you come across something on the Internet and it immediately resonates with you and you think of 100 different applications for it? Well I had
Medical Adventure in Sudan In January 2019, me and a group of doctors from Cambridge travelled to Sudan for a medical mission trip. With a team of Sudanese doctors, pharmacists, lab techs and 80
