Studying shouldn’t mean suffering. It does mean hard work (and lots of it), but that isn’t the same as being locked in... Read More

It’s often too easy to let ourselves off the hook and make excuses not to study. As starting is often the hardest... Read More

There’s an old cynical expression: hard work sometimes pays off later, laziness always pays off now. Using rewards you can change the... Read More

In business meetings you can often see the interconnecting webs of MindMaps scrawled over whiteboards. They are synonymous with organisation and, in... Read More

A little bit of structure goes a long way. It’s easy to feel that time spent planning revision would be better spent... Read More

Learning is about pushing the boundaries of what we know and stepping outside of our comfort zones, which causes resistance. If take... Read More

Studying can be daunting if a subject seems tough, or boring if a subject seems dull. There is a incredibly useful technique... Read More

I don’t necessarily subscribe to the idea that you should block out your time weeks in advance with fixed hours for revising... Read More

The thought of studying is almost always worse than the revision itself. We have a tendency to create terrible mental pictures of... Read More