Developing Razor Sharp Focus with Zen Habits Blogger, Leo Babauta
Update March 2018: Since writing this post, I have discovered many other strategies to help stay focused. I’ve compiled the strategies in a simple eBook called 70 ways to minimise distractions and focus better. You can download your free copy here.
How television commercials can help you learn
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 […]
5 strategies to help you write an assignment, thesis or book
The thought of starting any new writing task can be a daunting one.
With only ideas in your head and nothing on paper or typed up on your computer, the sight of a blank sheet of paper or empty word document can be paralysing for many of us.
“Where do I […]
The myth and madness of multitasking
An old Psychology Professor told me recently how he had to write his PhD thesis by hand and paid a lady with a typewriter to type it up for him. Paying typists and drawing graphs by hand was the done thing in academia only a few decades ago.
How times have changed!
One could argue that thanks to word processors, the […]