Tech How to Start a Blog on Ghost Today There are the two main problems I had when setting up a blog. I couldn't get over the hurdle of defining what I'm going to write about and I had trouble with setting up a website. The idea behind this post is to remove these two hurdles. I'm going to show you why to start and how to do so today.
Success When Quantity Beats Quality In our minds, quality usually beats quantity. It's much more delightful to own one quality product than to own a lot mediocre ones. It's apparently just the opposite with skills and success.
Learning What A Year Of Coding and Blogging Has Taught Me? After a year of blogging and coding I realised how much I learned in the process. This article focuses on what exactly this has been. I like to think it's not just another article on the web, but rather a valuable reflection for anyone who has ever considered blogging.
Thinking It's Time to Hold Ourselves Accountable Blaming someone or something else for what happened is easy, but we do not affect that. Making ourselves accountable, however, is tough, but in my experience, beneficial. We affect ourselves.
Medicine How Does a Cup of Coffee Keep You Awake? Why in the world does a cup of the most widely used and abused psychoactive substance in the world keep us awake? There are a diverse number of reasons, but here's my try at it from a medical perspective.
Thinking Why Note-Taking Is Better Than Memorising You know, that great idea for your next article, tweet or present for a friend you thought of the other day and then forgot about it? How many times has it happened to you? If you're lucky, it comes back to you, but usually not in the right moment.
Thinking Why It Matters To Acknowledge Cognitive Dissonance? Cognitive dissonance happens to us daily. It makes us uneasy and we then try to fight it by deluding ourselves. Usually, we can't do much about it. But what we can do is to acknowledge it and change our behaviour and thinking.
Thinking The Power Of Choice Every day, we can choose how we feel and what we do. We can affect our mood and actions for better or for worse. More often than not we're stuck in our own mindset, refusing to escape it.
Thinking Bullet Journal: An Extension of Your Thoughts Bullet Journal is a notebook that strives to replace your phone's to-do list and notes and keep everything in one place chronologically. It's a medium for emptying my head to focus on what matters.
Learning How I Read Better and Learn More From What I Read When I read I always strive to learn something new. So what good does it make to read a lot and get nothing in return? Over the past few months I developed a system of reading that works for me and can work for you too.
Thinking Steve Jobs: Greatest Lessons From The Man Behind Apple Being an Apple fan these days isn't easy. It's much better to be a Steve Jobs fan. A perfectionist visionary that constructed the life of technology we know today. This article isn't about the features and failures of the latest iPhone. It's about Steve Jobs.
Success The Gradus Model of Efficiency: Achieve Your Vision Were it not great if we had a model that makes your work count gradually, step by step, in the long run. Then the what we invest would show, eventually. A model to focus on what's important - yourself.
Thinking Why Should You Focus On Yourself? For the last 6 months or so, Iāve been writing about getting better. But within this context of better, I also realised that thereās another vital thing to keep in mind and an area I want to devote more of my writing to. That is, focusing on yourself.
Learning Top-Down And Bottom-Up Learning There are two learning principles that you simply have to pay attention to: bottom-up and top-down learning. One produces knowledge for the learner and the other distributes it to the learner. They're all around us and you can use them too.
Thinking Failure Is The Driving Force Of Improvement Many successful people say that one cannot succeed without failure first. It's very similar in big industries such as aviation and healthcare. But that doesn't mean that you cannot include it in your lifestyle. Quite the opposite - you should.
Learning Compounding Knowledge: Going Wide or Deep? Compounding knowledge is the gradual accumulation of knowledge that builds upon itself. It holds true for both wide and deep learning. Warren Buffet is a great example of going deep, whereas Roger Federer first went wide. But which is better?
Thinking Compound Interest: The Most Important Equation In History Equations are a way of understanding and explaining the world around us. But the most important one to truly understand is the compound interest equation. Easy to understand, broadly applicable, and capable of achieving remarkable results.
Success How Morning Habits Determine Your Day Many successful people emphasise the role of morning habits in their success. They are highly suggested among psychologists and scientists. The truth, however, lies in each individual.
Success Having Less Time Helps You Achieve Your Goals Ever asked yourself how come can some people achieve so much while doing many different things? Well, that may just be the answer to achieve your goals. Applying some rules such as the Parkinson's Law and focusing on the process might just be the key.
Thinking Genes, Culture, Age and How Wrong We Can Be About Success Lebron James is arguably one of the best basketball players of all time. He entered the NBA at the age of 18, straight out of high school. He's also considered incredibly talented. Yes, genes determine our lives in many ways. So does our talent. But that cannot be all.
Learning The Most Useful Memorisation Techniques Explained MedAT is a rigorous medical school admissions exam performed by medical schools in Austria to choose their top 10% of candidates. One task involves memorising 8 patient records in 8 minutes. How to achieve such levels of memorisation, integrate the techniques and apply them? Find out here.
Success Rebuilding Your Environment To Improve Productivity In 1971, as the Vietnam War was heading into its sixteenth year, Americans discovered that that over 15 percent of U.S. soldiers stationed there were heroin addicts. But upon returning home, everything changed. That's the power of environment.
Success The Best Way To Efficiently Use Instagram and Twitter Two of the most useful social media platforms, Instagram and Twitter. How can you use them to guarantee your maximum efficiency? Find out in this post.
Thinking Brussels Trip and A Weekend Way of Resetting Yourself How about a weekend trip to Brussels during school to reset yourself? Sounds good, right? Is it doable? I think so. My girlfriend and I decided to just go and forget about what was going on in our school lives and it proved to be a great decision. I reserved 2 seats on a Ryanair and off we went.
Success Using Facebook and Snapchat Without Sacrifices Facebook and Snapchat are two of the more popular social media platforms, which makes them easy to addict to. However, with a few tweaks and approaches, this can all be solved and you can use them both without any sacrifices.
