How to Study Smart

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Why do some students study very hard, spending most of their time doing their revision but they aren’t the best in their study group? And why are there some students who only spend a fraction of the time studying but they often get good or even outstanding results? This was not due to the lack of natural talent in studies but it simply means that they have not found an effective tool which acts as a knack for understanding concepts and learning new ideas. One of the smart study habits is by using mind-map to promote effective and accelerated learning experience. A mind map is a useful web-like structure which emphasizes visual imagery that helps to engage in critical thinking and seeing a bigger picture. Empirically, mind-mapping is proven as an effective method of note-taking as an active learning (Abi-El-Mona and Abd-Ei-Khalick, 2008; Liu, Zhao and Ma et al., 2014). Mind mapping makes learning more vivid, thus promotes creative thinking and encourages brainstorming. Th
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The power of story


I believe in the power of story because stories, either the one stored in our memories or those that we create as we interact with the world, are an important key in the aspects of learning. All of us live by narrative as it is the common way of living through the chaotic and unforgiving world. Stories must be authentic to engage our emotions and imaginations. And now, I have a few stories to share.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg went through his serious low point in the business when Yahoo gave him a very good offer of buying the company. Despite the superior offer, he made the hardest decision to keep the business as he believed that the network can be built beyond the ten millions people in school. He was very stressful as many people disagreed to his decision, but the most painful part was when the whole management team left the company within a year after that. However, he did not give up and he learnt and grew together with the company. He managed to foresee a bigger picture and believed in what he was doing to come this long way to the Facebook today (CNNMoney, 2016).

Mac Chung Lynn, Group CEO of Nando’s Malaysia and Singapore
Mac Chung Lynn was graduated in U.K. and had planned to stay in London to pursue her Architecture dream. She met with the top architects around London and managed to get her first job in a week. However, she took risk by giving up the 7 years architecture experience and changed the course of her life to a completely different direction. She took the courage to return to her home country, Malaysia to start up a chicken business. And today, it is what we call as Nando’s. Perseverance and constant hard work shape her into what she is today. She is not afraid of failure because she embraces challenges, enjoys challenges and she welcomes challenges! (Monsta, 2017a)

Bryan Loo, the CEO of Loob Holding
Bryan Loo had worked in a biotech firm for 2 years, and it all started when he wanted to create his own business. It was a tough journey as he had to start all by his own as none of his relations are in the F&B industry. He got rejected countless times by all the top ten companies but he took all the rejections positively, which is the hardest especially when you have to be your source of light to guide you through the dark path. What he learnt throughout the journey was to hold on your passion and believe in yourself, because every steps that you are taking will eventually bring you to the reality. And now, his vision allowed Tealive to serve more than 2.5 million Malaysians every month (Monsta, 2017b).

Life can be changed by story-telling and my life is changed by the story of every successful person in the world. We listen, we feel and we get inspired, and now we can change those stories to transform our personal lives to a better and fruitful ones. So, what is your story?  

References

CNNMoney (2016) Zuckerberg shares painful moment in Facebook history [online video]
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y74cdtfl4Oo
[Accessed: 31st July 2017]

Monsta (2017a) When We Are Young Episode 4 with Mac Chung Lynn [online video]
Available at: https://web.facebook.com/GoMonsta/videos/vb.1666789176875822/1946507522237318/?type=2&theater
[Accessed: 31st July 2017]

Monsta (2017b) When We Are Young Episode 6 with Bryan Loo [online video]
Available at: https://web.facebook.com/GoMonsta/?hc_ref=ARTKFKlkKMguemrck_R_gdyDZeSlcgYOPTmp0plTTky360GXUZPA-1s0XmolXfJt39A
[Accessed: 31st July 2017]
By: Yau Che Yan, BAF1541


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