A year ago I wrote a blog post called “5 ways to motivate yourself to study a boring subject and/or complete a project”. Several people responded to this blog post with comments along the following lines:
“Don’t know what to do … I have not gained any motivation …”
“I want something […]
It’s crunch time. Exams are quickly approaching (less than 2 weeks away) for many students.
If you’re like most students you may have noticed that the amount of time you’ve been spending on Facebook, YouTube or Twitter has significantly increased over the past few weeks or days.
If this is the case, don’t feel bad. It’s completely normal. But it’s […]
You know you should stop chewing your nails, that you don’t get much done when you log onto Facebook and that eating fish and chips from the greasy deli is a really bad idea….but you still do these things anyway.
People usually persist with bad habits because they get some personal satisfaction or reward from engaging in the behaviour.
Let’s face it, […]
Most of us don’t like them, we tend to ignore them but television commercials can be extremelly clever and tell us a lot about how to learn and memorise information effectively.
You see advertisers and marketing agencies have a whole range of strategies they use to hook you in and make their clients products memorable. Why do they try so hard to […]
