Need to maximize your focus on education?Need to apply strategies to learn better?Being able to concentrate is the key to being able to apply all these strategies that, of course, you already know. Study techniques are useless if you’re not able to increase your concentration.
It is important to focus on a greater focus on education for people who reconcile work and/or family with education, or for those who have returned to school after many years. It takes a lot of willpower and a lot of discipline.
- But you also have to learn to isolate everything that has nothing to do with studies so you can focus only on them.
- The techniques discussed below will help you increase your motivation to study and be more focused to achieve your goals.
We live in a world saturated with political and economic news and events, cultural news, movie premieres, gossip, news in our nearest circle and, of course, social media and other mass media. All the information around us bombards us and makes us lose our attention.
You should avoid receiving external information as much as you need your concentration. It will mean not logging in to social media, watching TV or listening to the radio, reading magazines and newspapers and all those distractions that help postpone things.
If you have to study, you have to study, whether you like it or not, the hedonism we are used to makes us think that all we have to do is like and like, I’m sorry, but it’s not like that, no. No matter how exciting it sounds, if you need to study, don’t wonder if you’ll like it or not, get straight to the point and don’t do it again.
Do not submit to the limiting ideology that everything in life is flowers and that you need to feel a motivating and pleasant stimulus to start something, this way you can only succumb to a myriad of distractions that surround you.
Remember every morning that you have good reasons to study: your goals, you’re studying for something and something. And you can only study.
You think every morning: how will I achieve my goals today?Forget what you want to do now and think about what you can enjoy when you reach your goals.
It takes more than study time to assimilate knowledge, information is absorbed and is part of you when you relax, so rest is essential after study. You have to rest to assimilate the information, so losing hours of sleep is not effective at all.
In addition, you need to alternate moments of relaxation in your study sessions. In addition to taking a few minutes to move every 30 minutes, you need to take a 20-minute break for every hour and a half, where you need to rest and relax so that the information is established in your brain. Close your eyes and let what you’ve learned absorb.
Some research states that sleeping after studying can improve memory than previously studied and consolidate learning, this has a lot to do with what explained in the previous point, reading before bedtime can also do wonders for long-term memory functioning.
However, this doesn’t mean you have to lose hours of sleep. Lack of sleep has been shown to significantly reduce learning up to three days later.
Studying doesn’t mean you should forget your health and body, eat well, avoid excess caffeine, and, of course, alcohol, is critical to performing well in the study. Foods rich in essential fatty acids are good for the brain and seem to help stimulate memory and memories.
Exercise is also good for the brain because it provides an additional source of blood and oxygen that can improve brain function.