Forget Study Hacks — Change Your Mindset to Become More Effective
Stop watching those YouTube videos!
We’ve all binge-watched super productive students on YouTube study for ten hours straight in a time-lapse. I cannot count how many study tips I’ve heard in my lifetime — never to use any of them.
In Study Less, Study Smart, Marty Lobdell gives tips on how to make more of your study time. Examples include doing it at 25-minute intervals, putting the concept into your own words, avoid listening to music not designed for study purposes, and so on.
I’ve tried all of these out, but what made the difference wasn’t these minor changes. It was the mindset.
I changed my mindset from studying to feel productive to learning for the sake of itself.
If you naturally find the material engaging, you won’t have to remind yourself to put the concept into your own words. Instead, you would naturally synthesize those concepts in your head when you daydream of its application.
You also wouldn’t listen to distracting music because it will distract you from concentrating on something you want to focus on from the get-go. Distracting music takes your focus off the material.
