Posts tagged with: effective learning

Fast and forever – how to learn faster and remember longer (an unauthorised guide)

Admit it. You want to be able to learn faster and remember forever – once and for good. So that you can absorb all you need to know about building software, writing better public speeches, become an expert in a...
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An approach to beating procrastination you probably haven’t heard of

I’ve read an interesting book recently and since it approaches procrastination from an angle I have not yet come across, I thought I share it. Steven Pressfield’s The war of art  is not a typical self-help/self improvement book and unfortunately...
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Top 4 distractions for modern students (and how to deal with them)

The way we learn is changing, and even if the pace is not in keeping with other changes in our environment. Modern education presents modern students with a new set of challenges. There is a growing trend for adults over...
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How to take notes from a book

In my quest to ‘change buckets’ (aka retrain/change professions/change industries), I am working on developing more effective and time-efficient systems of note-taking to learn and retain what I’ve learnt from books, self-help guides, articles etc. Why note taking? Note-taking is...
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How to improve your focus by managing emotions

I must admit I have been struggling to maintain focus lately. I am very much using my declutter your mind method (described in detail here) and working with Pomodoro, which does help to some extend. Unfortunately, it is not so...
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4 essential elements of effective learning

I had an interesting discussion on effective learning with one of my students recently. It looks like some of the teaching methods in medical school have changed since I was a student, but they still make future doctors sit through...
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