Hey guys what is New Year’s going to bring us all?
Let’s hope a meteor this time. Or at least a big epidemic
Mood
- Listen to everything they’re taught, not just hearing
- Take notes
- Listen to opinions they don’t like
- Be open to having their minds changed
- Don’t listen to music with words when studying
- Practise
- Commit
- Keep a regimen of self-discipline even in the face of a lack
of motivation
- Take breaks
- Sleep regularly and more than expected
- Work very hard during the day
- Exercise
- Plan in advance
- Get small tasks done when there isn’t time to do bigger ones
- Engage
- Take failures as a learning curve
- Think positively
- Do their best work at the start of the year so they get more
slack later
- Talk to those who teach them
- Debate
- Do a little every day instead of all at once
- Ask for help
- Help others
- Drink water
- Work hard but work smart
- Know what study setup is their most productive
- Hold themselves accountable
- Figure out which work is a priority
- Don’t waste time re-reading as a form of studying
- Find out things they don’t understand
- Test themselves frequently
- Work backwards through things to understand why something works
- Learn more than they need
- Have more interests and hobbies than just academics
- Find out the most important concepts in a course
- Learn the most important 20% of the course to get 80% of the
grade
- Don’t complain
- Tailor their courses to focus on what interests them the
most
- Play hard after working hard
- Read in advance
- Know how to say no but don’t say no unless they have to
- Take every opportunity they can
- Eat well
- Defend their personal beliefs
- Don’t use other people’s successes/failures as an excuse for
anything they do
- Don’t let studying become the main part of their life
- Understand that everything is temporary
- Set goals, short- and long-term
- Put their phones away/on silent when studying
- Don’t expect any results immediately
