How can I study 10+ hours a day?

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I’ve done that for six years, every single day. Weekends, vacations. I wrote an entire book on the topic.

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But first, let me tell what to do : not that.

Asking this question, what you ask is really pointless. Your goal should be, for instance, a certain grade, or being in the top ten percent of your class at university. That would be a wiser choice.

What is the point of studying a lot and go straight to burnout (been there, done that), when you can actually be efficient, and work towards meaningful objectives, such as grades ?

If you have to study ten hours a day every day for more than a year, then something is wrong. You are doing something wrong. For there are a few very hard programs which will push you to your limits purposefully, but they often don’t last this long. I’m speaking of the military for instance.

Even if your grades matter as much as your life, if they can make the difference between being happy for the rest of it or totally miserable, as was my case, you don’t need to do that.

I was plagued with life-threatening psychological conditions. I wasn’t sleeping (worst thing for a student). Nightmares every night. I was deeply depressed, on the border of psychiatric hospital for essentially the whole time.

The quality of my study was thus, understandably poor.

I had to get efficient. I wasn’t fully myself. It’s as if I was drunk for most of the time. Theoretical Physics when you’re drunk is hard. Yet I managed to be on the top of my class for five years, with the highest grades, and get into Cambridge (in arguably one of the hardest programs in the world). And there, you were brutalized if you went along what you were said. Pointless overly difficult exercises. Basically a kind of military boot camp for the mind.

I wrote an entire book on how you can study efficiently. It’s aimed first at scientists, but 3/4 of it are applicable to any students.

Here is an example of my ideas.

If you like them, checkout my book ! Most of it is free, on my blog.

Submitted October 16, 2019 at 09:07AM by saradinto https://ift.tt/2OSSsjR