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We’re now into June and the holiday season is creeping ever nearer. Whether you are going abroad or staying in the UK, there is nothing more distracting in the weeks leading up to going away than crossing absolutely everything off your checklist and making sure that you remember to take everything you could ever possibly…

Sit up and pay attention! It’s time for us to delve back again through the archives and re-live Grahams Extreme Productivity Experiment series that he took part in during 2013. In the month of April, Graham wanted to look into different ways that we can increase our attention and productivity during the working day. ‘By…

Graham conducted a series of extreme productivity experiments in 2013 in his quest to find new ways of how he works, test the parameters of “productivity” and explore the idea of the “work/life balance”. Two years on,  Graham sat down to reflect on what he learnt from each experiment and how it’s changed the way he…

Regular exercise improves mental performance. One of the reasons for this is because exercising releases a protein in the brain called ‘brain-derived neurotrophic factor’ (BDNF for short) which is know to promote healthy nerve cells in the brain. Studies into BDNF have found clear links between high levels of BDNF and improved memory and recall.…

Graham conducted a series of extreme productivity experiments in 2013 in his quest to find new ways of how he works, and test the parameters of “productivity” and explore the idea of the “work/life balance”. Two years on, Graham will spend every Thursday for the next twelve weeks reflecting on what he learned from each extreme…

Graham conducted a series of extreme productivity experiments in 2013 in his quest to find new ways of how he works, and test the parameters of “productivity” and explore the idea of the “work/life balance”. Two years on, Graham will spend every Thursday for the next twelve weeks reflecting on what he learned from each extreme…

How sedentary are we? In a typical day we spent on average between 7 and 8 hours sleeping, sitting at work 7 ½ to 9 hours, leisure time anywhere between 1 ½ and 4 hours versus active about 3 hours. This sitting epidemic is wreaking havoc on our health, even daily exercise is not enough…

Having trouble getting that essay started? Are you feeling paralysed by procrastination? Then fear no more, as Graham Allcott has some tricks up his sleeve to share with you that may just save your day! Over the next few weeks, every Wednesday at 3pm, Graham will be revealing another anti-procrastination strategy designed to help give…

When you’re juggling a lot of different things, it’s difficult to justify a moment to sit down, close your eyes and just breathe. It’s easy to fool ourselves thinking that switching activities, from a full-time job to a hobby, for instance, is giving ourselves the break that we really need. You may be doing something…

It’s often said that the role of learning is to grow – that by acquiring knowledge we somehow grow up, grow old or grow wise. But I actually don’t think this is true. When learning truly excites us, we might grow as a person, but actually we don’t grow up, old or wise. The more…