How to listen - by an undergrad Oxford Student from Switzerland

A guy on the Internet, which set his youtube speed to x1.5 for every lecture he listened to, was ranting about the slow speed of these professors talking. To those I have these insightful thoughts(excuse my written English, I only excel at listening, not at writing or speaking.):

That's the point. Those lines will probably be one of the most important of your life. Even if he would speak in 1-minute pauses, I would still be listening with the utmost focus. I'm a Swiss student, trying my Bachelor in Psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, and I'm probably way more "brisant" to studying 24/7, but still, I am not inconvenienced by his slow speech, after a nice workout and 20-minute Meditation. There is nothing more important than learning about LIFE. When you regularly listen to 2-hour lectures about the Logical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory, by a 70-year-old professor, in a Study that is, in a historical sense, a newborn child, 3 minutes of an intense, planned out and scripted lecture will be nothing. When there are pauses, they will be for you to make up your own mind about what has just been uttered. Use your own brain to think about those said words, and when you do, these pauses will not be in vain, waiting for the next words, but they will show marvellous things. Most westerners listen — then think. But this is the mindset of a monkey. While you listen, you must think. And if the other talks slowly, it will give you even more time to think, which is a gift. View it as such.

So In Short: When there's nothing to write about in a lecture, never be bored. Always keep your mind active. Think. Be completely indulged by the subject, get stressed out by the information the professor tries to convey to you while simultaneously getting the feeling like you're being drowned by your own thoughts on the subject.

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This - and only this fascination, this absolute addiction, more-so, the dependency and enslavement to the study, will get you into a world-recognized University. Become – OBSESSED!

And if you follow these principles, maybe your professor, as it was in my case, will recognize your obsession, and even give you private lectures.

And this is probably the most critical thing about your study that you will ever hear: If you seek private lectures with your professor, you are in the right study. But if you feel like the study is like work to you, abandon it immediately, and search your soul for your true calling. When working, you will be working 8-12 hours of your day, maybe 16/24 hours and 0-3 hours will be leisure, the rest sleep. So do not seek work that will occupy your entire day that you will view as work, seek a study that will make your leisure-time into work. I have - multiple times, been awake 60-80 hours at a time, completely overwhelmed and overpowered by my thirst for knowledge. I have probably spent more time and money on books while in this undergrad study than I have ever on any other subject in my life. And this is what it takes to excel in a world inhabited by 8 billion humans.

"Remember, as long as you are breathing, it is never too late to start a new beginning."

– Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha

Submitted February 01, 2020 at 10:42PM by Phytom https://ift.tt/2RNZreI