Many students consider writing papers as one of the hardest job they have ever had to do in college. Yet, it is also the most important and critical one to success in school. Why can writing be so hard? Because it requires proper understanding and broad thinking to get the work done nicely. In order to have a proper understanding, you need to do some research with discipline. Read the rest of this entry »

If you read some financial advice and tips on how to make a better financial life, you might found an advice to avoid credit cards altogether. Well, I’m one the people who disagree with that idea. If one could use credit cards responsibly, they can be a great financial tool, especially if you sign up a credit cards program to get free items and perks.

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Be sure to create the right attitude about study and especially about reading-students do a lot of it! If you have something challenging to read and you tell yourself, “I’ll never understand this,” chances are that you won’t. You have conditioned yourself for failure. Instead, condition yourself for success. Give yourself affirmations such as:

• “No matter how hard the reading level, I will learn something from this.”
• “I will become a better reader with each reading task.”
• “I can understand and I will remember.” Read the rest of this entry »

Defining the concept of happiness is not quite easy. Surely it is one of the most controversial and complicated definitions. Human beings have always tended to pursue happiness as a goal or an end, as an ideal and permanent welfare state. However, it seems that happiness is made up of little moments and fun inducing details found in a day. And perhaps its main characteristic is its ability to appear and disappear constantly throughout our lives.
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Essential to improving your test scores is making your study time active. Many of us approach studying in a passive way-we just absorb facts and theories like a sponge. We may think that because we have read the textbook, heard the lecture, and taken notes, we’re all set. This postings is about your investment in a more active role in your study process. Let’s get to it.

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It seems nowadays universities are giving more emphasis on the written assignments. Thus, students often feel overwhelmed by the so many papers they have to write for each lecture. But we know that essays, dissertation and coursework can effectively help students to better understand the subjects. The ability to write assignments is proven to be a competitive advantage for this will enable students to get higher marks as well as good jobs after graduation.
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There are numerous precedents for example in the Encyclopaedia Britannica saying that many psychoactive substances have historically been associated with creativity. The ancient Persians drank wine to make choices, but the process consisted of two parts: the night getting drunk and throwing ideas; and the next day is selecting those that seemed appropriate.
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Understanding the closures and the process of generating ideas lead directly to consideration of the techniques of creativity. Meet the creative process and this techniques will allow us to develop a part of our potential to result in creative proposals. A process of creative problem solving actually holds two processes, a process of generating ideas and decision-making process.

Principle 1: A new idea is a combination of old ideas.
Principle 2: The ability to recover old ideas for new combinations depends largely on data that we have in the memory and the ability to see relationships.

Now lets look at the steps of creative process: Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past 5 years we get more requests and questions on “Emotional Intelligence” as it relates to organizational development, what to do with them in the company, its advantages and disadvantages, risks that have been taking, and particularly in implementing the most beneficial way for the organization.

But what is “Emotional Intelligence” (EI) according to Daniel Goleman? Is there really a limit to the application of the “Cognitive Intelligence”? According to the perspective of Daniel Goleman “A vision of human nature that ignores the power of emotions is sadly shortsighted.
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This subjective testing type often causes more stress for students because the distinction between a right and wrong answer is not always as clear as in objective testing. Also, in the subjective test, students may be asked to expand their thoughts beyond the facts that were taught in class, and they may be expected to form their own opinions and then provide the statistics or facts to support them. Subjective tests are almost always graded by people, not machines, which means that human opinion enters into deter­mining how right or wrong a response is. Read the rest of this entry »