Learning Methodology techniques Part 1.
What is the secret behind someone who seems to be passing university easily? Can I be a happy university student if I’m also successful in my studies? Are there any techniques exist which could help me ease my burdens too? Is it possible to have successful exams with less anxiety and stress?
Come and join us in this practice-oriented article series and I promise that, You will be able to do it too! We will practice how you can enjoy studying. Yes, it is possible. By the time you read all the articles you won’t have any doubts either.
Is it Important to be interested in what you study?!
Take out a sheet of paper and write down your classes on it. Leave out a line after every class. When you finish your list, one by one under every class, find a reason why you are interested in that particular course. Find a point which catches your attention in it, which will give you strength and will inspire you to go to class, so that it will be important for you to complete the class successfully.
When you get up in the morning make time for thinking through your daily tasks: what classes I’m going to have that day, what tasks I’m going to have to complete. This will make completing tasks very efficient, and it also supports the mental (psychic and emotional) preparation. If you can’t remember any inspiring thought for one of your classes, take out your pre-made list, find what you wrote there and think it further.
The way you arrive to a class/seminar/meeting heavily influences our mental presence. Everything can be interesting, and if we find what excites us in the given session or class, we will no longer see it as slave labor, but we will be genuinely interested in it. And if something picks our interest we will become motivated which will increase our efficiency. It will feel like as if knowledge just flew into our brains (sounds good, right?).
Go to class and be present. If you go to class but for the whole time you’re on your phone scrolling Insta it is only a topographical question where you are because mentally you aren’t in class. This isn’t multitasking this is wasting time. You’re wasting your own time and you’re increasing anxiety in the long run. Let’s check it out, this isn’t the goal you’ve written down on your paper in the beginning?! Practice to do the same thing mentally that you are doing physically.
Of course, this is not an easy task, the constant online presence has become part of our everyday life, but we have to make an effort in this if we truly want to become successful.
The way to be present in class is to stay focused, pay attention and make notes. My suggestion is to take notes in a notebook, draw small figures and mind-maps too. This is a creative note taking technique which helps recalling the material on a later occasion. With paying attention and writing you use three of your senses in the studying process, so you will memorize it successfully. To keep this knowledge, you will have to revise in every 2 days, but you can read about this in our next article.
I wish that from now on you only have classes that interests you. By now you surely feel that it’s not the curriculum that needs to change but Your attitude, for this you just have to click a switch. I’m going to help you, will you come with me on this journey?
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