Making information stick: A step-by-step process to learning large amounts of content

Do you need to learn and retain a large amount of information? Feel out of practice or have no idea how to go about doing this? I’ve developed a simple process that you can use to help make information stick and stay in your brain for a long time. This process has helped me to […]

The study strategy you can’t live without…

What’s a study strategy you can’t live without? For me, it’s mind mapping (i.e., visual note taking). Mind mapping helped me go from getting 1 out of 20 on my first test at university to completing degrees in Law and Psychology. It helped me get a PhD scholarship and complete my doctoral thesis. Whenever I […]

Don’t understand something? Break it down with mindmaps

What do you do if you don’t understand something? Keep reading the same sentence over and over again? Maybe that will work. Maybe it won’t. Or you could grab some coloured pens and mind map out the content. This is what I do when I’m struggling to understand something. And this has worked for me […]

How to speed up your mind mapping: Tricks of the trade

I’ve been asked on more than one occasion “Is there any way I can speed up the mind mapping process?” The simple answer is yes. There are several ways you can fast track the mind mapping process. But like anything, there is no escaping the fact that mind mapping takes time. It takes effort. But […]