Stumbling blocks
What might be in the
way of your getting the best exam results possible for you?
- Motivation - Are you
enthusiastic? Do you have a compelling reason to get good grades?
- Strategy – Are you
using the best techniques for your brain-type to revise and get the best marks?
- Perspective - Can you see
the big picture? Can you see how working hard now will pay dividends in the
future?
I want to tell you a
story. If you've ever experienced an ‘aha!’ moment, then you'll be able to
relate to it...
A few years ago, I had the
opportunity to try out a practice skiff at the River & Rowing Museum in
Henley-on-Thames. I don't know if you know about rowing boats, but sitting in a
skiff you have a very high centre of gravity. That means it's very easy to lose
your balance and topple over.
It's a good job that
this practice skiff was in doors because I found it so difficult to balance
that I would have had a dunking in the river - several times over if we'd have
been doing it for real!
After a little while of trying desperately to
keep my balance, someone lent forward and suggested, “Relax - let your muscles
go limp and imagine all your weight going down through your body and through
the seat into the floor below.”
Of course I realised at that
point I was simply trying to hard. And what was the worst that was going to
happen?
So I tried it. And to
my astonishment, the tension, the fear and more to the point, the wobbling disappeared!
There I sat, smack bang in the middle of the boat, as still as you can imagine!
I have designed The
Genius in Me to be full of these ‘aha’ moments, by giving you what you need to
learn faster and be more successful than ever before.
What’s so good about
The Genius in Me?
I have found that the
trouble with other learning resources is that:
- First of all you
don't know which of the suggestions are likely to work well for you so you can
waste a lot of time trying stuff that might be great for other people but t
were never likely to help you.
- Also I’ve noticed
that instructions are often incomplete and so you can waste a lot of time
trying to work out how to do something - and of course the danger is you give
up before you find out how useful it might be.
- And the other thing
is that you don't normally get a chance to talk to the person giving you the
advice.
All of these issues I've addressed in The Genius in Me.
- Your answers to the
questionnaires will generate two documents tailored especially for you and the
way that you learn faster.
- The advice is set out
step-by-step so you can see exactly how you can convert the information you're
trying to learn into a format that works for you.
- You can talk to me!
I'm on the end of a ‘phone. You can e-mail me. You can contact me via Facebook.
You can contribute to my blogs.
And that's just for starters!
I want you to keep in
touch and let me know how you get on. I want to hear your success stories. If
there's something you don't understand, I want to know about that too. I want
to know how you think I can continue to improve The Genius in Me.
Who thinks ignorance is bliss? Read more here.
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