*This post is written personally by Glenn Lim*

It’s the last few months before I graduate from my SocSc program and it has been an incredible journey! Incredible in the sense that I never thought I could push myself so far, attaining a steady grade of ‘D’s (yes, D for Distinction), but more significantly, I’ve gained so many personal learning tips and study strategies in the last 2 years that I can’t wait to teach them to students in my programs…Studying was such a chore for me when I was in pri/sec sch that I gave it up totally, thinking I wasn’t cut out for academics, which was a shame, because I didn’t realise that I was engaging studies from a wrong frame and model of the world. back then, studying was a pain, a joyless and cumbersome discipline. These days, my frame of studying is that of a ‘game’ - it’s fun, insightful, promotes self-discovery, and I keep looking fwd to the next lesson!

This is why I’ve begun developing our Master Series in Study Skills and Strategies for 2009, where I personally teach peak-performing techniques to achieve the best results by understanding and mastering your ‘gaming field’! Learning to learn is more important than learning a subject, and learning how one learns is critical in self-competency and subjects-mastery! I’ve personally gained so much from learning and applying the Mindmapping, Mastery-Intelligence and Photoreading-Comprehending skills to my studies, and have observed my own mental processing capacity doubled! But most of all, my MOTIVATION to study has increased tremedously!

If studies can indeed be reframed to that of a ‘game’, there is no reason why students will not want to ‘play’!

Here’s some pics I took during class…Was I not paying attention? naah…I was just ‘playing attention’ in class! So here’s my 1st study tip for all you students out there who want to stay motivated - Get A Study Mascot!…More tips on Personal/Study-Mastery in upcoming posts…

I wanted to post this vid of my class last week. We had the great priviledge of having S’pore’s guru-psychotherapist Dr Anthony Yeo, lecturing our class.