The Pomodoro technique simply and effectively splits up tasks into manageable chunks with pre-defined breaks. This article will show you how to increase your productivity with time management whilst working more efficiently and for fewer hours. The name comes from the tomato shaped kitchen timer used by the technique’s inventor Francesco Cirillo. Pomodoro is [...]
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An Essay On Knowledge and Happiness
Knowledge, or as Plato put it: “a justified true belief.” is about the journey for understanding. Like many people, I define myself by my knowledge and thinking patterns. This article is an essay that explains my thoughts on the nature of knowledge, it’s place in society, and how it can make us happier. I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »5 Ways to Accelerate Progress With a DIY School Report
Identifying strong and weak points in your character, is an essential component in your quest for personal development and self improvement. Working on these strong and weak points is the easy part, the difficulty comes with critically evaluating yourself, and judging what needs improvement from a completely impartial point of view. What people think of [...]
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Whatever your problem is with handwriting, it is very unlikely it cannot be remedied. People of all ages and professions take steps to improve their handwriting and almost always succeed. It’s probably not your fault but due to the way that you were taught. Recently, handwriting has been given less emphasis in schools, partly from [...]
Read the rest of this entry »5 Reasons to Give Up TV
How much time do you waste on TV? On average it’s between 5-8 hours every day. People have lived for tens of thousands of years without them and seemed to survive perfectly well without “Neanderthals got Talent”, or “Nice Cave, Shame about the Mammoth”. Is TV the secret to everlasting happiness? I don’t think so. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Fluent in 3 Months – Challenge Accepted
Memories of high school French or German lessons are what discourage swathes of people from taking up languages later. You might be convinced it’s too late, that you’re too old, or you simply don’t have the “ear” for languages. This post is inspired by Benny the Irish Polyglot. His website focuses on learning languages practically, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »8 Errors in Judgement Most People Make
Upon flipping a coin ten times and having ten successive “heads” as an outcome, is heads or tails more likely on the eleventh toss? Surely it’s tails? Wrong!! It is a 50/50 chance of course! Every time! You may have fallen into this trap before – the “Gambler’s Fallacy” - where there is a tendency [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Harness the Power of your Inner Voice
Do you ever talk to yourself? My Granddad said that if you do, you’re talking to someone with a bit of common sense. It therefore is quite clever to listen to that voice inside your head every so often. However it is usually only a small voice continually masked with other things; and too often [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Comprehensive Guide to Advanced Learning Tips
A- grade wannabes everywhere should hopefully get a lot out of this, and even if only 1 tip sticks in your mind it could make a whole lot of difference later on. This article is seriously meaty so you might want to bookmark it if you want to continue reading later. A big mistake that [...]
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