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  • The 24 Best Productivity Apps in 2022

    I’ve refined my collection of ‘best productivity apps’ over many, many years. I’ve kept all the good apps, and deleted any that weren’t efficient, or easy to work with.

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  • How to Learn Anything Faster

    Learning how to learn is one of those meta skills that nobody ever really teaches us. But, it’s also the number one skill we should learn if we’re looking to…

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  • 9 Lessons from 4 Years on YouTube

    In this article, I wanted to share 9 lessons I’ve learned over the past 4 years of being a YouTuber. Lessons that have not only helped me improve as a…

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  • How To Type Faster: 8 Actionable Tips To Increase Your Typing Speed

    Let’s be honest – we’re all using computers on a daily basis and most of us use it for work. And while I don’t want to admit it, I spend…

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  • The 5 Rs of Note Taking

    The way we take our notes influences how well we learn. In short, a good note-taking technique is one that helps us remember, retain, and recall the most amount of…

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  • How To Stay Focused (and not get distracted)

    These days it’s harder than ever to stay focused. We’re surrounded by fancy technologies and the whole new (and usually more fun) world is just a stone’s throw away.

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  • The ABCs of Idea Generation

    One of the first bottlenecks you’ll probably come to when starting a YouTube channel is the fear of running out of content ideas and idea generation in general. A fear…

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  • The Feynman Technique

    When we learn something, it’s easy to convince ourselves that we’ve understood it too. But, are we really learning effectively? Have we understood the concept or simply memorised some sentences?

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