How can I study for 10+ hours a day without getting

depressed and how can I make myself get used to it?

I often studied 14-16 hour days for a solid year when doing my final exams in Oxford University. These are
the things that kept me sane, happy, and motivated. You can do this. You already have the ability within
you because you are asking this question. With these tips you will be unstoppable.

Exercise - Every day get your blood flowing. It's clich for a reason: healthy body, healthy mind. 20
minutes a day is good enough. Go for a walk in the morning whilst listening to something that motivates
you (but unrelated to work). When I studied in Oxford, I routinely pulled 14 hour days (often 16 hour
days) for a year straight. I lifted weights at the end of every day.

Sunlight and fresh air - Don't get cabin fever. Supplement with vitamin D but also make sure you
breathe in fresh air and see the sun regularly.

Diet - A diet rich in good fats will keep your mind lubricated. Try coconut oil (a teaspoon every day to
begin with, then up the dose). Also try MCT-oil. Eat fish, nuts, fruits, vegetables. Limit refined
sugars/grains/dairy. Have a dessert but have it at nighttime because the carbohydrates will help you sleep
well. Bananas are great to eat before bed because they contain tryptophan which will boost the serotonin
in your brain (the chemical that makes you happy and motivated). Eat light during the day. If you can fast
in the morning, that will be great for concentration. Digestion slows you down.

Coffee + Tea - Get yourself a really good quality coffee and some great green tea. I recommend matcha,
genmaicha, and gyokuro for green tea (you can't go wrong with the Japanese stuff). Have a cup of coffee
and a cup of green tea beside you whilst you study and sip them. The coffee has caffeine, which keeps you
alert, and the green tea has l-theanine, which keeps you relaxed and happy. This combination is fantastic.
The green tea stops you from getting coffee jitters. David's Tea has a wonderful selection:
The Matcha Shop | DAVIDsTEA

Pomodoro Technique - Work in bursts. Set a timer for 25 minutes and do nothing but concentrate on
work. Then have a 5 minute break where you do whatever you want. Watch something funny on YouTube,
walk around, play with your dog. Here's a time I used: Tomato Timer. You can sustain long bouts of work
by doing this. This will also make sure that you absorb most of what you study. Seriously, after 25 minutes
of studying, your brain needs a break or you're going to be ineffective.

Olympic Athlete Mindset - Tell yourself that you're training for the academic gold. Keep yourself fit,
healthy, happy, and focused. Make this your purpose. There's nothing depressing about living your
purpose. You can do this! This is your mission.

Smart Drugs - Adaptogens like ashwaghanda, rhodiola rosea, and bacopa are all excellent at improving
your memory, motivation, and stamina.

Meditation/Stretching/Yoga/Pranayama - Learn to quiet the mind. Read The Power of Now by

Eckhart Tolle and listen to his guided meditations on YouTube. Go for walks and just focus on your
breathing, don't indulge your thoughts, and notice things around you. You will be sitting down for long
periods of time so make sure you have a good stretching/yoga routine. I followed this 30 day challenge
whilst I studied in my final year in Oxford:

Relax Every Day - This is important. You have to switch off your mind at the end of the day for your
own sanity. Relaxation time is important because that is the time where your mind consolidates all the
information you fed it during the day. Protect 'You Time' and give yourself at least 2 hours to relax. Go see
friends, talk with your family, watch a movie, read a book, take a hot bath (or contrast shower). Do
whatever you need to do to feel normal again. Doing social stuff is a great idea because you don't want to
spend too much time in your head.

Keep a To-Do List and Diary - Every Sunday, write out what you will do over the week. And every day
before bed, write out and review what you will do the next day. Then tick off everything as you do it. This
will give you a little burst of motivation and happiness because you will feel a sense of achievement every
day. Write on paper. There is something therapeutic about getting away from a computer screen and
organising your thoughts.

Good luck to you! You can do it! Focus on the present, look after yourself, do everything you can, and you
will be fine!

ANS2
I found that the best way to study for extended periods of time is to not so much regulate your study, but
regulate every activity that could negatively impact it. It is much more productive to study at 100% mental
capacity for 5 hours than a distracted or tired or under performing 50% for 10 hours.

So your main priority should be ensuring that all your needs are met and you are studying as efficiently as
possible.Take away all your excuses and reasons to pity yourself.

I am assuming you mean ten hours of total study in a day including schooling etc.; it is not really that hard to
do!

Your main focus should be:

1.
1. Sleeping as much as you need and when you need it.
2. There is literally no point in studying for 10 hours a day if you don't remember half of
what you learnt the next day. This is what will happen without enough sleep. Your brain
is a part of the nervous system, you stress it out when you study, you need to rest it to
recuperate.
3. If you are really really super serious, you could adopt a biphasic sleep schedule. All this
means is that you simply have a 30 min nap sometime in the middle of the day when you
get naturally tired. This is standard practice in quite a few cultures and here is what it does
"Naps increased vigor, decreased fatigue, decreased confusion, decreased reaction time, and
increased number of correct additions".
4. Benefits of napping in healthy adults: impact of nap length, time of day, age, and
experience with napping.
5. Every extra nap you take decreases the time you spend in core sleep (at night). So with an
extra 30 - 45 min nap during the day, you might sleep 1 to 1.5 hour less at night naturally
and still feel rested. You will find that your total sleep time will easily drop to 7 hours or
less. This is polypasic sleep in its most basic form. If you find it hard to nap the first couple
of days, simply force yourself to lie down and close your eyes. In a weeks time you would
love your afternoon siestas.
6. This is also a great way to calm your mind down when you have a million things on it.
Sleep is the best form of meditation to calm you the shit down!
7. (I wouldn't take any more than two naps in a day as you actually get tied down to those
timings and you feel really sleepy on the days you miss them.)
8. 6 - 8 hours.

2.
1. Eat properly. You need to keep up the energy flow in your brain. This is pretty hard to do
on a standard diet as you need to constantly eat carbs, sugar etc to keep it up. Your brain is
 a massive consumer of energy! Over 20% of your total energy spent during rest goes to
your brain, more when youre thinking harder.
2. Each Organ Has a Unique Metabolic Profile
3. If you're really really super serious and are trying to extract every last bit of performance
out of yourself, you cannot do better than a ketogenic diet. It has actually shown to increase
cognitive function, memory retention etc and has neuroprotective effects plus you will
get a constant flow of energy to your brain so you will no have any dips in concentration.
(This is absolutely essential if you're considering studying for extended hours).
4. If you dont wanna do this, you would still be better off having a moderately healthy diet
with healthy things to snack on while studying.
5. Page on nih.gov. A multivitamin is essential. You want your blood work to be spot on, so
you dont get sick etc. Also make sure you have a Vitamin D supplement and shit loads of
fish oil.
6. 1 hour

3.
1. Exercise of course!!! When people talk about exercise in a schedule, they always look at it
from the point of view of having a balanced life and being healthy and all that, but with a
ten months timeline the only thing that should matter to you should be performance. So the
only reason you should be exercising should be because it helps you perform better
academically.
2. The Influence of Exercise on Cognitive Abilities
3. And what is the best kind of exercise you ask?? Why running of course!!
4. Movement itself is advantageous to the mind, humans evolved as persistence hunters after
all. The relationship between aerobic exercise and cognition: is movement medicinal?
5. Effects of forced running exercise on cognitive function and its relation to zinc
homeostasis-related gene expression in rat hippocampus.
6. High impact running improves learning.
7. " The research reviewed here by and large simply demonstrates that aerobic activity is
indeed a powerful modulator of structural brain plasticity." Physical activity, fitness, and
gray matter volume. Exercise actually makes your brain bigger!!!
8. For exercise progams, all you need is a simply running program
like C25K.http://www.c25k.com/ You simply work your way up to running 5km every
second day over 9 weeks. It only takes half an hour every second day! Thats less than 2
hours in a week! It is an absolute no brainer. After ten weeks you might start doing running
for half an hour a day if you want. Or you can maintain your 5km distance and try to
increase your speed. Go for a run outsid and get some fresh air and sunshine.
9. If your really really serious you could consider doing some of the shorter workout videos
by beach body. They are all insane and take much less than an hour.
10. Focus t25 ( 25 min a day for 2 months ), Insanity(45 mins a day for 2 months), Insanity
Asylum ( 45 mins a day for a month), Insainty Asylum 2 (45-60 mins a day for one month).
In this order theyre easy to work through, they actually give you a huge sense of
acomplishemnd completely takes your mind of studying for that time.And of course you get
absolutely jacked.
11. Remember, sore necks and shoulders are an absolute bitch. They are extremely
distracting, reduce blood flow to your scalp and could cause headaches and in worse
cases even migraines. Working out helps.
12. 0.5 to 1 hour
 4.
1. Shower and brush your teeth and take care of you other stuff.
2. Dont be a pig and don't hold in your shit! The toilet is also a great place to read. And
listening to good music while you're showering is almost a religious experience.
3.
1 hour

The above three are what I consider absolute necessities. You spend between 8 - 10 hours a day on this.
you have 13 - 15 hours left to play with.

1.
1. Pick up a hobby. Spend half an hour to an hour a day doing something that you really
enjoy. Of course if this indirectly helps you perform better that is an added benefit.
2. Make sure you take something up that you will not make you want to deviate from your
time table.
3. The best options for this is to either take up an instrument (serious cognitive
benefits) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/...
4. Of course you can also play videogames. I would stick to first person shooters with a
story http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm... , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm... or real
time strategy video games http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubm... .
5. You could always spend that time reading stuff online or on Quora or fb if you want.
Unfortunately 1 hr of social media a day is pretty standard these days.
6. 1 hour
2.
1. Spend time with family and friends At least an hour or two.
2. You will be much less inclined to study if you feel like you're missing out. This will
definitely affect your performance.
3. You could double up by eating, working out, playing video games, watching tv with them
thus making even better use of your time.
4. Trust me when I say this, FOMO IS REAL.

5. 1 - 2 hours
With the above every single one of your basic needs and 99% of your wants should be met. I literally
cannot think of anything else you would need to do.
You are now well fed, in decent health, quite popular with your friends and family, don't smell bad and
have a good 10 -13 hours left for some intense studying with no excuses and distractions.

Now finally with the studies, as long as you follow a few basic rules you would be able to develop quite a
decent study plan. 10 months is long enough that it could be basic and of a very high level.

GENERAL STUDY RULES

 1. Have a good study area where you study. Try as much as you can to stick to this area. With a month
or so of repetition, every time you enter this area you will automatically go into study mode. Make
sure you have plenty of desk space and a computer with a half decent screen and an internet
connection. If you don't need a computer to study don't have one there!!! It could be a huge
distraction. I found that having a white board to scribble on while walking around an looking
important really really helps. Don't underestimate the value of a comfortable chair and good
posture.

Something like this cubicle with a plug point for your laptop and a slightly bigger desk would be
absolutely perfect.
2. Do not I repeat DO NOT have your phone in your study area. Keep it on silent and turn off
vibration. You do not need your phone there when you're studying. You can check it during your
breaks which you will have a few of.
3. Split your daily study into at least two major blocks. What I mean by this is, add at least one or
preferably two major basic activities to right in the middle of your study time. So study for 5 hours,
then have a nap, wake up and have your lunch, play some video games, exercise, have a shower etc..
Do whatever you feel like. The two things that I think really help around that time are having a nap
and having your lunch. Having a meal after having a nap literally tricks your body into thinking you
have started a new day. You will almost forget that you were studying earlier. Plus having a nap
would help you retain more of what you studied.
4. If you feel your attention span fading, STOP STUDYING. If you feel like you need to re-read the
same sentence more than 2 - 3 times to understand, it means your concentration is fading. This could
be due to many reasons. You could be hungry, you could be tired, you could be bored, you could be
distracted. Trying to study in thee situations are a waste of time. You might as well be watching tv!!
Take a break and do one of the basic items I listed above. Play some video games, get on quora, go
for a run. Do something that completely breaks the rest of your day off from the part of the day where
you cannot concentrate. When you get back to your study area it would be a new day and a new study
session that you will be ready to attack at 100%.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you play a video game and you will be constantly losing
in really difficult level. You get bored and walk away. When you come back the next day, you
almost always beat that level on your first try!!! The same thing applies to studying. If you're not
getting it, walk away.
5. Dont study the same subject in consecutive major study session (5 hour block or half your days
study however you split it). While this may not be possible closer to your exams, you could
definitely do this up to almost your 9th month in.
6. Dont jump from one subject to the next in the same major study session (5 hour block). If its within
the half day block, go eat something, play some video games, pick up your guitar and play for half an
hour,have a shit! But someback and give this subject another shot until you take your major break.
7. Teach some one else what you're learning. The simple act of trying to get someone else to
understand what you see forces you to subconsciously break down what you learnt into simpler more
fundamental forms. This reduces the number of times by you will have to revise a certain topic
drastically!! You would also subconsciously make a greater effort when you need to understand
something to explain it to someone else and you will be more likely to acknowledge your mistakes
and move on from them sooner.
This is called THE PROTEGE EFFECT.
http://aaalab.stanford.edu/paper...
FLOW : If you are on a roll keep it going. Sometimes when you're concentrating intensely, you
will not notice the time fly. This the the zone you want to be in. If you are in this zone all other rules
could be violated! Don't worry about eating, sleeping, showering or working out.
This is called being in the state of flow. This state is more likely to occur in skill based subjects like
mathematics and physics.
1. IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE WHEN IN FLOW
http://psychology.about.com/od/P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl...
2. Go out with your friends. Once a week take one major study session (5 hour block or
half a day) off if you have friends or family to go out with. Limit this to once a week on
Friday or Sunday night. The daily one to two hours of "hanging out" doesn't really mentally
count as "going out". If you are moderately social, you would know what I mean. Dont take
FOMO lightly.

1. What can I say, peer pressure is a bitch!!! Feel free to go out clubbing instead. Try not to
drink much though. Alcohol is a bigger bitch.

IN YOUR LAST MONTH before your exam temporarily give up your hobby, I know
that, now that you've mastered the guitar it is going to be hard to put down. But you have
exams in a month!!!!
Stop hanging out with your friends everyday or going out once a week. This will give most
likely give you an extra 2- 3 hours a day, 17 - 20 hours a week. This is an extra 4 study
sessions!
DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR SLEEP even during your exams. You would score better having
slept properly than if you spent all night studying and did your exam at 70% mental capacity.
If you kept to your timetable, you are ready!
If you not 100% comfortable with your exams, put your exercise on hold for a couple of days
before each exam. If you are confident, I would suggest you continue with your regular daily
exercise routine.

I'd like to end this by saying, please don't get hooked on to that 10 hour figure. There
is no point in pulling out a random digit and saying you want to stick to that! Is this not that
hard to study seven subjects thoroughly over 10 months and would most likely require a
LOT LESS THAN 10 hous a day.
As a general rule, students in ivy league schools including Harvard spend 1 to 2 hours of
study outside for every hour of lecture or course study in school. If you calculate the average
number of hours one would spend attending classes for the course you're testing for, it
would be very easy to simply double that (hourly) value and divide it evenly over ten months.
 I'm sure you will find that this value would most likely amount to less than 6 hours a day and
maybe even less than 4! Any extra studies might even be counter productive as you
will lose focus practising the same shit again.
Of course once nerves kick in in the last month, this will change drastically.

As long as you stick to the basics I listed above and generally followed such a
system everyday you will ACE your exams.

ANS3
I'm afraid I have to give you the bad news first:

You have got it all wrong.

What you are doing is counter-productive.

The "secret" to studying efficiently and effectively is not putting in long hours a day.

It's the use and application of a slew of smart study strategies, including test/exam preparation, as
proven by peak-performing students in Singapore.

The optimal study period in one continuous stretch is 2 hours, but this has to be broken down into
four equal segments of 25 minutes of studying and 5 minutes of taking a break, allocated for each
time segment.

The scientific rationale behind this initiative as illustrated is to garner higher incidence of what
learning psychologists called 'Primacy Effect' and 'Recency Effect'.

In layman terms, they mean, as learners, we tend to remember well what's in the beginning and
what's at the end of the endeavour.

In the event you need to extend the 2-hours stretch, you can have another 2-hours block schedule to
follow, but make sure you have an extended break of say 20 minutes or so.

But more importantly, you need first to understand the following categorisation:

Academic subjects can be generally classified as:

concept-driven/memory-dependent subjects, like Biology, History, Geography, etc ;

[In Singapore, we call them "mugging" subjects, as one needs to "mug up" in order to master them, as
there are helluva lot of stuff to remember.]-

problem-solving subjects, like Math, Physics, etc.

interpretation- and/or prediction-based subjects, e.g. English Literature;
Some subjects may straddle more than one category, e.g. Physics, and Chemistry, which have a lot of
problem solving elements, notwithstanding lab experiments;

So, if your first 2-hour block is dedicated to studying say Biology, your next 2-hour option should be
Math or Physics, at best.

By doing so, you are allowing your brain to do its natural consolidation cycle.

Meanwhile, I'm sad to say that students of today are still stuck with archaic study methods of the 18th
century and applying them in the 21st century.
They don't realise that the best studying strategy is to study smart, by incorporating new and better
ways of studying.

Given a choice, this is what I would do, in order to study smart:

1) Learn and practise proven efficient and effective study tools like SQ5R and Cornell Notes.

Go to the net and download information on SQ5R and Cornell Notes:

i) SQ5R reading/studying strategy:

It's a structured system [SQ5R is an acronym for SURVEY, QUESTIONS, READ, RECORD,
RECITE, REVIEW, REFLECT], but it equips you with efficient and effective ways to flesh out key
ideas and salient points quickly and systematically, thus helping you to navigate academic materials,
especially the intellectually-intense ones, with ease and expediency.

ii) Cornell Notes":

It's a far more superior system that the conventional outline method, known to most students in
schools, college and universities.

It's latent power comes from its simple and yet elegant three-column spatial configuration for taking
notes and making notes.

The "cue" column is the most powerful system I have ever known, as it facilitates - and expedites -
your memory retention/recall via self-testing.

2) Before you proceed to study/revise each academic subject, learn to categorise them into:

(i) concept-based/memory-dependent;
(ii) problem-solving;
(iii) interpretation/prediction based;
so that you can do a mix-up during lesson revision at home, and also to allow you to be more energy-
efficient, particularly in using 25-minute revising/5-minute break over a 2-hour stretch, thus
attaining more 'Primacy' and 'Recency Effects'.

3) Preview your new lesson the night before class, by preparing preliminary notes.

This is because, when you are learning something new in class, your prior knowledge will always
come into play to make connections and create linkages.

Learning psychologists call this initiative, "schema activation".

Henceforth, more schema, more understanding!

4) Make sure that you thoroughly understand the content of all your class lectures; if not, you have to
ask for clarification or elucidation from your lecturers or professors.

To me, the acid test for understanding something new is your ability to explain the new concept, in
your own words, to someone else, like your kid brother or even your grandma. No puns intended;

5) At the end of a class lecture, always do a quick Recap, Review and Reinforce, preferably with
mnemonics - I call this the 3R's strategy.

Science says 80% of your information intake is lost if you do not execute this initiative within 24
hours;
6) At least for every semester quarter, or a couple of weeks prior to your final test/exam time, spend
time and effort to prepare global consolidated and summarised study notes, as part of your final
test/exam prep, by incorporating:

preliminary notes from your textbook reading, the night before class;
notes taken and made during the lecture;
notes taken and made from lecture handouts, if any;
notes taken and made from class discussions or group-work, if any;
notes from lab reports and/or field work;
other notes, e.g. from research at the library, or from the Internet search;
7) Also, with the aid of your subject syllabus as well as exam syllabus, learn to identify and segregate
"core material" from "elaborative material".

"core material" = important concepts, principles, theories, definitions, terminologies,

nomenclatures, important diagrams or graphs, etc.;
"elaborative material" = illustrations, examples, anecdotes, etc.;
Drawing on Pareto's Law:

About 80% of your exam questions are likely to come from your "core material", and so you know
what and where to focus first.

This is not to say "elaborative material" is not important, but once you have the intellectual grasp of
"core material" in the first instance, "elaborative material" will naturally falls into place - in your
memory banks;

Transcribe "core material" into 4x3 index cards for their pocket portability, using the proven Index
Card Strategy, for convenient "learning-on-the-go": commuting and/or waiting in queue, as this
facilitates random self-quizzing;

8) Review your learned class lesson within 24 hours, and then prepare a systematic spaced and
distributed practice of revision/rehearsal, next 7 days/ next 30 days/next 60 days/ next 90 days till
test/exam time;

This initiative helps you to circumvent the deadly impact of the infamous Ebbinghaus Effect, or better
known as the Forgetting Curve;

9) Master the 100+ Test Verbs, often used by examiners in test/exam questions;

10) Always remember [I hate to say this, but it's a harsh reality], tests/exams are a form of game, and
you got to learn to be an excellent game player.

First of all, a test/exam is always a game of PRECISION and SPEED.

No matter how you look at it, examiners are only interested in your ability to answer questions
PRECISELY and EXPEDIENTLY, all within the prescribed time limits.

So, to beat them in the game, you got to learn to master the technique of doing a "surgical cut" of the
exam questions at first glance, no matter how they are phrased.

That's why (9) is critical here.

For your strategy to win the game, learn and practice the Question Dissection Protocol (*), a powerful
technique for dissecting test/exam questions, developed by award-winning educator Doug Buehl
from Madison, Wisconsin;

I have already written extensively about this technique on Quora. You can search their archives.

11) Spend time and make concerted effort to tackle the past exam series, preferably under simulated
test/exam conditions;
12) If you are familiar with the graphical methods of note-taking and note-making, like idea-mapping,
cluster diagramming, and/or graphic organising, apply what I call a 'Divide and Conquer' strategy by
creating a global idea map for each of your subject matter, using the tapestry of contents of your
textbook as branching ideas; alternatively, you can also use the core ideas captured in (7);

13) I have in fact written an extended piece on lesson revision and rehearsal as a prelude to final
test/exam preparation, entitled [originally targeted at high-school/junior-college students in
Singapore]:

THE ART & DISCIPLINE OF REVISION STRATEGY

Here's the link:

THE ART & DISCIPLINE OF REVISION STRATEGY by Say Keng Lee on OPTIMUM
PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES

14) Last but not least, especially if you are interested, acquire a copy of Adam Robinson's 'What Smart
Students Know' and Ronald Gross' 'Peak Learning', and do your best to read as well as digest them.

Definitely, you will be amply rewarded!

So, my end analysis: it's not the total number of hours you are going to spend; it's the right strategy
you are going to use purposefully, meaningfully and productively in your academic pursuit.

I take this opportunity to wish you a pleasant and successful academic journey, and may all your
fondest dreams come true.

[20160325_Study Hours]

ANS4

Joseph Campbell, in my opinion one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, studied for nine
hours a day for years in college. He read a vast breadth of material and later synthesized it into his
work The Hero With A Thousand Faces.

For five years he studied in exactly the way youre looking to. Heres how he did it:

1. Divide the day into segments - Dont attempt to just go for ten hours in a row. Its not
how your brain works. The way to attack the problem youre looking to is to divide the time
youre looking to study into chunks. Campbell divided the day into four four-hour segments.
You could easily do the same with studying, three three-hour segments and an additional
hour, perhaps, to review.
2. Focus on one things at a time during the segment - Again, dont just go willy nilly
at studying like I did in high school (not a great strategy). Instead, focus on one subject for
the entirety of the segment.
3. Strategize studying each segment based on the subject - Campbell would spend
some time reading, some time copying down his notes (a GREAT strategy), some time doing
a free write attempting to digest the information he just studied. Do the same! Based on the
subject matter it might be good to divide your time segment into a quick review of what you
studied or took notes on yesterday, maybe it would be good to review flashcards, maybe it
would be good to do a free write comparing what you read today to what you already knew,
any of these are good options.
4. Take breaks - Finally, take a break. Following the Pomodoro Method(another awesome
way to organize your focus), take a short break, about five minutes, every twenty-five
 minutes. Take a longer break, about 2030 minutes every ninety minutes. This lets your
brain rest and digest the new information. If you dont do this you will burn out.

ANS5
We tend to get depressed when we feel we are not capable enough to overcome the challenge placed
in front of us. This can easily be avoided because

What the mind can conceive it can achieve .

So believe you can overcome the problems and achieve your goals .

Also you need not study for 10 + hours every day as it gets repetitive and you may
tend to lose interest after a while so that affects your concentration and overall
performance .

Try to relate the topics that you study , relate the concepts to real life examples , understand the
basics well , take help of online and offline courses they are extremely helpful .

also try maintaining a group of friends who will study with you and revise in the last minute , discuss
and study . This Improves your speed and your mind does not get diverted either.

Also try adaptive learning , has helped a lot of my students and may help you
too. Adaptive Learning

Why can't I bring myself to study every day?

Because you hate what youre studying.

People today feel resistance or boredom towards what theyre doing and they think they have a
procrastination problem.

Procrastination really is a first-world luxury problem to have.

There are two situations where youll never procrastinate:

1. Life or death
2. Your true passion
Someone is holding your daughter hostage and you need to wire $10,000 to set her free?

You are not going to procrastinate.

You are going to move mountains to free your daughter.

Or just say you need to do something that makes you feel complete, makes you feel rewarded, puts a smile
on your face.

You are not going to put that off, are you?

If you cant bring yourself to study, it means one of two things:

1. Its not important

2. You dont like it
So ask yourself if this is really the life you want:

Trying to make yourself do unimportant and unexciting things.

You only have one life to live.

Spend it on the stuff that matters.

Why can't I stop thinking about this person? I have never experienced this
before.
This person made you feel valued.

They actually listened when you talked about your life.

You know how rare it is to see someones eyes sparkle when you talk?

They gave you their undivided attention and made you feel like you mattered.

And this person isnt just anyone.

Its not like theyre a bum on the street.

Even if theyre not supermodel attractive by any objective standard, they are probably beautiful to you.

So someone beautiful gave you a little piece of their heart and then

Poof.

They vanished.

Maybe they didnt vanish completely but they certainly arent as available as you want them to be.

In their absence, youre left wondering.

What are they doing?

Are they thinking about me?

Wouldnt life be better if they were with me now?

The more you think, the more these thoughts spiral out of control. These thoughts feed off each other.

Now you have that swirling feeling in the pit of your stomach.

So you turn to the internet and ask:

Why can't I stop thinking about this person?

But if you even have to ask the question

You already know the answer.