Tag: Money
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Why my Information Diet is suboptimal
Hey friends, I’ve got a bit of a problem. I’ve been thinking a lot about my information diet this week. An information diet is the stuff we consume – the…
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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…
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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…
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Improvisational Productivity
Hey friends, Last week I was listening to an episode of Million Dollar Brainstorm, in which the hosts Shaan and Sam were chatting with investor Daniel Gross*. Towards the end of…
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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 know…
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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 tell…
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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…