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It is smart to tool up on skills and strategies that help you navigate your way through school. Toolbox has tips on how best to prepare for exams; how to ‘build' a good resumé for university applications; tips on success at interviews and how to get the best out of the long, school summer holidays.

Entering the Business World? Flex Your Empathy Muscle

Entering the Business World? Flex Your Empathy Muscle

We tend to think of successful businessmen and women as strong-minded and lacking in emotion

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Angela Duckworth: The Psychology of ‘Grit’

Angela Duckworth: The Psychology of ‘Grit’

Angela Duckworth is a world-leading psychologist, who left her demanding job in management consulting to teach seventh grade mathematics in New York.

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The psychology of happiness - or do we mean joy?

The psychology of happiness - or do we mean joy?

So how do we attain eudainmonia? We are engineered to believe that happiness is dependent on success and money.

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There’s Real Science Behind Revision Technique: Ways to Succeed

Retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving. What are they? Different revision techniques that help students learn more, in less time.

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How best to prepare for exams

How best to prepare for exams

The prospect of revising can be annoyingly daunting and procrastination is what most of us do ahead of exams

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5/02/21

Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught

Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught

The ancient philosopher Socrates went to the Delphic Oracle and asked, “Who is the wisest person in Athens?”

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5/02/21

Interview questions…

Interview questions…

It seems you need to do an interview for absolutely everything these days. Read tips on getting through these times

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5/02/21

Lucid dreaming: exciting or nightmarish?

Lucid dreaming: exciting or nightmarish?

Like lots of sci-fi films (Interstellar, for one), ‘Inception’ leaves you feeling dizzy with the attempt at understanding what a ‘dream within a dream’ really is.

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5/02/21