Our story begins in an Austrian café. It was in that café that Bluma Zeigarnik, a young Lithuanian psychology student, met with her professor. And it was there that one […]
One of my main takeaways from a recent presentation by Charles ’70:20:10′ Jennings was a performance boosting technique used by Rafael Nadal. I’m not into sport, but Nadal’s […]
Every time we focus our attention we’re making choices about how we fill our relatively limited working memory. Latest research indicates that there are about 4 […]
In 1996 a simple experiment using chocolate & radishes created a new understanding about willpower. Roy Baumeister and his colleagues gave participants a plate full of chocolate […]
Mindset is an often ignored yet crucial factor in learning. Here are three well established aspects of mindset in learning, and each is supported with tips for […]
A couple of years ago a study in Psychological Science in the Public Interest tested a range of learning techniques to see which ones actually paid […]
Work smarter and make learning stick with these eight simple techniques. Each one has well documented evidence based results behind them and are easy to implement.