Good morning How’s it going with your studies? Have you been keeping to your schedule, using the pomodoro technique and making sure that you are learning actively? Good for you! Here’s another reminder of one the great tools we introduced when we started this newsletter last year, to help you use your study time as effectively as possible. It’s called spaced … 26 May 2025 – Effective Study: Spaced Repetition

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here Last week we talked about that big dark shadow, fear of failure. The first step to overcoming it, we said, is to face it. Name it to tame it. What exactly are you afraid of? Define it. Then, secondly, focus on what you can control, and thirdly, take action. This week … 19 May 2025 – Beating Procrastination

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here This week we’re talking deep stuff that few of us will acknowledge, even to ourselves, but most of us have experienced: fear of failure. That paralysing conviction that you’ll never be able to do this, whatever “this” is. You’ll never understand calculus, or the Middle English poem you have … 12 May 2025 – Fear of Failure

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We hear about misinformation and fake news every day. People lose money to scammers. It seems like you cannot trust anything or anybody. How can you know what to believe? How do you evaluate information? It may sound weird, but the first step is to trust yourself. Trust your common sense. That … 5 May 2025 – Handling Information 4: Evaluating Information – Staying Safe Online