Tag: Goal Setting
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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 and spaced repetition which, in combination,…
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A Reminder about Consistency
Hey friends, Two minutes ago, I was snuggled up in bed under my newly-laundered sheets, hoping to get 7.5 hours of sleep before starting a week of on-calls tomorrow morning.…
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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…
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Motivation is a Myth
Hey friends, I’ve had a lot of messages recently from (mostly) students asking about how to motivate themselves, especially during exam season. The quandary goes along the lines of “I know I…
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How I get myself out of bed
Hey friends, One of my main struggles in life is getting up in the morning. It’s easy enough on work days, because I know that I have to be out of the…
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Ironing and Life Insights
Hey friends, One of my favourite personal development blogs, Raptitude, wrote a post in November called Do What You’re Doing. It’s about the idea that when we’re doing stuff, we should be…
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The Courage to be Disliked (Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi) – Book Discussion
In this episode, we summarise “The Courage to be Disliked” by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi.
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The Wright Brothers (David McCullough) – Book Discussion
In this episode, we talk about “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough.
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Lean into the fear
Hey friends, A few hours ago, I was sitting in the 4th row in an auditorium with a few hundred people. It was day 3 of The Session 2020, the UK’s…
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What should I do with my life?
Hey friends, I recently came across The Odyssey Plan, a method to help navigate big decisions, and to answer the age-old question of “What should I do with my life?” It goes as…
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Reconsider Victory Conditions
Hey friends, One of my favourite pastimes is to think about the myriad ways in which life is like a game. In ‘proper’ board games (ie: not terrible ones like…
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14 Lessons I Learned in 2019
Hey friends, One of the most joyful parts of the holiday season is that I don’t have to come up with some novel wisdom for this newsletter. I can just…