SELF-IMPROVEMENT | SCHOOL | STUDY HABITS
The Best Study Techniques of Highly Effective Students
It’s a simple formula. Success requires work. Work requires time and concentration. Put in the time. Do the work. Success will follow.
There are study habits and techniques available to any student that will increase his performance and grades if only followed. But, the techniques take time and discipline to develop into habits. Once in place as study habits, they take time and discipline in their application every day.
Time implies work. These techniques will be unsuccessful without the work. Work implies effort — brain effort — much of it. Concentration, which you will note is the first among the techniques listed, is hard. Extended, hard concentration is what is required.
Concentrate intensely.
In elementary school, beginning in first grade, we had homework every night. In the small apartment where I lived, my desk was in the dining room, open to both the kitchen and the living room. There were five of us, my parents, me, and my brother (four years younger) and sister (six years younger). While my mother prepared dinner and washed up afterward, while my father watched TV, while…
