Tips and Motivation
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Exercise Right Before An Exam To Raise Your Score!
So it seems as if you’ve done all the preparation that you need to do on your exam checklist: you’ve incrementally studied way before, avoiding that dreaded overnighter, you’ve incorporated killer study habits, you’ve had a good night’s rest, eaten a hearty breakfast – is there anything else you can do to raise your chances of getting that elusive A? Well, according to a research done back in 2010, exercise might just boost the possibility of you getting a higher grade! Hold on a second. Yes, we know that exercise does make the brain sharper, boosting cognitive and mental function.…
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The Zombifying Snooze Button
Everyone’s always looking for the few more minutes of sleep every morning. Thus, the invention of the snooze button. Nothing beats being able to look at your phone, snooze your alarm, and go back to sleep with the realization that you still have another 30 minutes to sleep. There’s really no better feeling than seeing your significant other getting dressed for work. Meanwhile, you still have maybe 15 or 30 more minutes to sleep. It’s the best invention ever – until 9 minutes later, when you have to end up pressing the snooze button again. You end up having to…
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Presentation Anxiety and How to Beat It
Some of the smartest people in the world have serious issues giving presentations. If you have ever felt anxious while presenting in front of other people, you could probably pick up a tip or two from this post. Presentation anxiety has been a challenge for public speakers since the beginning of humanity. As long as humans have had a spoken language, we have had speakers lead groups of other people, mainly because of their professional presentation skills. Being able to present one’s ideas to a group and have that group agree and follow your recommendations is a skill that needs…
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5 Ways to Increase Brain Power
A lot of us men devote a large number of hours every week to bettering our physical fitness, hitting the gym on average three to five times a week. Fitness centers and gyms are always being put up just for the sole purpose of keeping the body in shape. When was the last time that you gave your brain a good workout, though? In this case, the term “use it or lose it” also applies. Our minds consist of 5 essential cognitive functions: memory attention language visual-spatial skills executive function It’s essential to regularly stimulate and challenge all five functions…
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The 3 Things To Do Today
If you’re like many people in the United States, you’ll find out that when you have a lot of things that you need to get done in a day, you often procrastinate. You’ll often find that at the end of the day, you’ve wasted so much time on YouTube or Facebook that you haven’t really done most of the things that needed to be done that day. Procrastination is a big problem in the US, with as many as 26% of the population being affected, almost quadrupling in the last 30 years. This is a problem, as people often have…
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Incremental Studying
Have you ever pulled an overnighter before an exam, just to realize that you don’t really remember everything that you’ve studied? Yes, I, for one, have been in that situation. It’s really never a good idea to study everything that you need to learn at one time. Rather, you should break up your study into incremental parts that you slowly build on. I know that most of my friends who aced that exam studied in a similar fashion. In a learning point of view, it actually makes sense. If you’re learning to play guitar, your tutor will usually teach you…
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Hack Healthy Eating into Your Brain
There are three categories of mindsets people have concerning eating healthy. They are: 1) I’m eating healthy. 2) I should be eating healthy. And 3) I don’t care about being healthy. Thankfully, this article directs its attention to both 1) and 2). If you’re under the 3rd category, sorry guys, this one’s not for you. Most people are eating or want to eat healthy foods, but lack the proper motivation to do so. This is usually a problem in the brain caused in the development stage when you were still young. Luckily, the brain, as complex as it is, can be…
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Ask for Feedback Following the 30% Rule
Some of you may have had an occurrence back in college when you had to submit a 10-page long assignment, but being so much of a perfectionist, you just had to create the best possible even on the rough draft. You spend so many hours of your time on the project, getting everything right, and when you finally go ask for feedback from your teacher before creating the finished paper, your teachers says you got it all wrong – and on a small technicality. You have done the paper correctly, but you have done it on a topic irrelevant to…
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How to Curb your Social Media Addiction
We may not want to admit it, but many of us have an addiction to social media. Before you start shaking your head and denying it to yourself, answer the following questions: Is checking your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter the first thing you do when you wake up and the last thing you do before going to sleep? Are you prioritising your social media use over interactions with people you care about? Do you find yourself instinctively reaching for your phone with no real purpose? If so, then you have an addiction, and you’re not alone. According to Social Media…
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Save Money When Purchasing Nootropic Supplements
Save Money when Purchasing Nootropic Supplements With the price of nootropics, it might be sensible to save a little money on the side if possible, wouldn’t it? After all, a dollar is still a dollar, and you can get something from the dollar shop with that extra dollar – and heck, if you save ten dollars, you’ll get ten things from the dollar shop. (That was a bad joke, I know) However, if you are serious on saving some money on nootropic supplements, you’ve come to the right place. Sometimes, we may purchase nootropic supplements without stopping and thinking about…
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