How to Optimise Your Studies to Actually do Better.
DAY 11- WE ALL WANT TO BE “CRISIS-PROOF”, YET DON’T WORK EFFICIENTLY
DAY 11 - MOST PEOPLE WORK LIKE UNI GRADUATES, DO IT LIKE A SLAVE
DAY 11 - MOST PEOPLE WORK LIKE UNI GRADUATES, DO IT LIKE A ZOMBIE
DAY 11 - DON’T WORK LIKE A STUDENT (WORK LIKE A CHATGPT ROBOT)
How to Study with OPTIMAL Efficiency.
How to Optimise Your Studies to Actually do Better.
Index:
1) Intro
2) Purpose
3) Exercise
4) Energy
5) To-do-list
6) Learn and work effectively.
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How to work with extreme efficiency, whether it’s for school, or for your job, or for a productive conversation...
All studies that I mention will be in the blog that I’ll link at the bottom of the description.
You can go and check them out if you want to.
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Exercise.
No exercise will stress you out, which will hinder your researching abilities and you’ll make your mistakes.
Do exercise like vinyasa yoga and a run, because they’re physically difficult and mentally demanding
Working in a less stressed state means that you’re less likely to do bad research or make mistakes.
Same goes for a job.
That’s it, but use the following thing if you train a lot and want to recover efficiently:
1) Make a cup of coffee; limit the sugar. I have no sugar because it's nice, and because I don't wanna spike my blood sugars and then crash.
The benefits of coffee before a workout lays in a decreased perception of fatigue, increased concentration, and improvements in strength, endurance and cardiovascular-related performance capabilities.
2) Do ya exercise.
I do yoga and a run, for bodyweight strength, flexibility, toning, and to connect with my body in a mindful way, which allows you to work in a less-stressed state, which will more likely than not allow you to avoid bad research or other mistakes.
3) Have a small, healthy carb breakfast, FOLLOWED, by another coffee.
Drink coffee AFTER the meal, because nutritionists and doctors say that's important for whatever reason.
The reason for coffee after working out, is that when mixed with carbohydrates, it allows you to recover faster by storing glycogen in the muscles, repairing them.
Although, most studies have only been tested on pro-athletes, so this effect might not even be that significant for most people.
Also, eat good in general.
We’ll talk about that in tomorrow’s Day, so join the Peaky Pines Email Community and I’ll send you a notification for when it gets released.
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Sleep
Sleep more than you think you need to.
Keep sleep efficiency in mind.
Like your 8 hours in bed might only be 5 hours of sleep.
Gotta do yoga and eat well.
Talk about diet later in the challenge, so subscribe.
Stimulation and blue light less than an hour before bed will make your sleep worse.
Same with food, so do not eat more than 2 hours before bed.
Use Designated Spaces, so only sleep in bed, do nothing else there.
Don’t drink or smoke before bed.
Get sufficient sleep for you, because otherwise your brain will function at its minimal capacity, which will obviously hinder your work quality and motivation to work.
Keep in mind, that due to people’s varied levels of sleep efficiency, 8 hours of sleep might easily be more like 5 hours.
Sleep efficiency’s affected by how much you stimulate yourself with media AND blue light before bed, how much and how close you eat before bed, and the overall health of you as an individual.
I’ve also spoken before about Designated spaces for work efficiency, like only work at desk, only sleep in bed, only entertained anywhere else.
Only sleeping in your bed will contribute very positively to your sleep efficiency as well.
So yes, this supports my stuff from before on not eating or drinking before bed, as that’ll make your sleep shitter.
Don’t eat 2-3h before bed, because it usually interferes with your body’s natural circadian rhythm, and can cause tummy discomfort, since the food won’t be fully digested.
Plus, sleep is for a variety of functions, which aren’t supposed to include digesting food.
Alcohol before bed will also ruin your sleep, depending on who you are, or if you have more than 2 standard drinks worth.
This is because it actually DOES make you fall asleep faster, or in other words, decrease sleep onset latency, which leads to suppression of REM sleep, where your body would be resting most effectively, and LEARNING.
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To-do list.
Do the one thing necessary to have intention throughout your day, and to know exactly what you need to be doing: Make to-do lists.
Make it big and you’ll get more done, even if not the whole list.
Make one, because it gives you clarity and makes you the kind of person who’s intentional and who isn’t lost.
Gives you the opportunity to push yourself, as you can add as much as you want. Mine’s expansive.
Won’t forget things, so you become more organised.
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Learn and Work Effectively.
Now for studying specifically.
Make use of the forgetting curve.
So space out topics and subjects, so that as you begin to forget information, you refresh it again.
Do multiple subjects throughout a day, like math, then science, then english.
Use the right methods:
Teaching flashcards created out of your syllabus or curriculum, and doing active recall.
Implement the Revolutionary new form of work-life balance.
By brainstorming Value Activities and then doing those in your breaks.
A 2009 study in Applied Cognitive Psychology, helps us to conclude that spacing is very important in retaining information.
Leave a big space between studying certain topics and certain subjects.
It turns out that in the forgetting curve, waiting until the memory begins to fade, is exactly when you should revise, not constantly on it.
Subjects or types of work should be done in variation.
Perhaps a memory task, like science perhaps, then problem-solving in math, followed by interpretation like history.
A study by Kornell in 2008 basically concluded that you shouldn’t revise math, upon math, upon math.
Rather english, then math, then science, then english in a loop, would work better.
This is actually another example of waiting for the forgetting curve to begin, and then revising again.
And of course, your “studying and revision” should be teaching flashcards, doing active recall or creating the flashcards, in accordance with your syllabus.
Teaching, as a study method, has been found to be extremely effective in actually retaining the knowledge, even if it was only recently studied.
By the process of “Retrieval”, having to reach into the depths of your mind in order to pull out the information to teach, without notes, ossifies that information in your brain.
The last thing that you can do is to brainstorm your values for the day and then take “Value Activity” breaks.
You hit a timer, and then type up what feels like the most important things, concepts or pleasures to you in your life.
Each day, you’ll write something slightly different, but you’ll begin to see trends.
Mine are connection-related.
Then you brainstorm ways that you can demonstrate these values, and then you do the things in your breaks.
Like reading a book, going for a walk, appreciating the words of an author, texting something loving to a friend…
Those are mine.
This gives you an effective work-life balance, where both your studies or job, AND your breaks, help you become the person that you’re aiming to become.
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