How to focus on Studies for long hours

 

How to Concentrate on Studies For Long Hours 

What if I gave you three simple tips that will help you increase your concentration on studies for long hours and what if I told you that this one single activity of being able to focus will single-handedly take you to the path of success that working and today we're talking about how to increase your focus and concentration on your studies for long hours.

  

Tip number one is called programming

 Now imagine you're driving in a car down this beautiful mountainous track now what if you're sitting in the back seat of the car chances are initially you're going to be looking out to see what's the scenery or you're going to be looking in front to see that can I keep track of the route but after some time I guarantee you're gonna get bored and you're gonna either start looking at your phone or you're gonna fall off to sleep or you're going to be asking the driver how long is this going to take now just imagine that you are in the driver's seat now no matter how many distractions are there how much you feel hunger thirst or your phone is ringing you're going to cut out everything and focus entirely on every oncoming vehicle and hairpin Bend now why such a big difference the question is in our lives are we in the driver's seat or is someone else driving our vehicle are we taking charge or are we blaming someone else from our problems now our brain is a super power control it before it rules “you distraction and direction are inversely proportional when one goes up the other one comes down”

now the reason I call this programming is because every day you think it's easy but every day when you wake up chances are you're gonna slip right back into your old way of thinking and which is why each morning when you wake up ask yourself am I in the driver's seat of my life have I taken responsibility for everything that happens to me today and soon it's going to become a habit how to increase your focus and concentration

Tip number two

it's called practice now no one ever taught you how to concentrate your parents just tell you concentrate karo but no one tells us how to do it now attention is a muscle and just like every other muscle in the body it requires training.

Malcolm Gladwell said that

“ In order to become an expert at something you need to spend 10,000 hours learning it now guess what happens to us every day we spend about 15 to 16 hours being distracted we're talking to someone we're checking the phone we're reading a book with checking our laptop and guess what you're becoming an expert at distraction’’

 So today I'm going to teach you something that you will follow initially just for 10 minutes in your day and eventually you're going to become a master at your own focus and concentration today take out 10 minutes of time where you can be alone and comfortable in a room and which is a room that you enjoy studying in now finish all your eating and drinking before you go into that room and keep your phone and laptop outside since this is your first training session we're going to start with your favorite subject so take one textbook don't take five six seven textbooks remember we're only talking about ten minutes take one textbook one notebook a couple of pens if you like colored pens and take one extra sheet of paper which we're going to use as a distraction sheet take a timer with you and when you think you're ready to begin switch on the timer now pick up your textbook and read actively read aloud shut the book ask yourself some questions maybe you want to make some notes try to see if you can remember what you've studied highlight underline and you're going to find that suddenly something pops into your head saying hey you need to call somebody or you need to respond to somebody's message now whatever distracting thoughts get into your head put all of that down on this sheet that's lying to your side come back and study write down the thought come back instead and towards the end of ten minutes just shut the books switch off the timer close everything and walk away from that room and like all exercise the first day is usually a bit unusual but it's possible that what you've accomplished in this ten minutes is as deep as what you would have accomplished in a whole hour we try to increase the number of these slots that you take don't be in a hurry to increase the length of the slot there are only three rules that you need to follow to make this activity a success rule number one every time a distracting thought enters your mind write it down on that distraction sheet lying on the side rule number 2 every time you think you're totally losing concentration switch it off close your books and move out don't worry about the timer and rule number three never never never get your phone into this space this is sacred space where you always focus the moment you allow the distraction into the space you pollute the space when you follow these three golden rules you will be able to sit for at least about 45 minutes and concentrate with full focus and to keep your mind sharp and focused we also need to have a healthy body so here are the three things you need to look at one is your diet eat a diet of healthy food drink a lot of water cut down on sugars because that makes us sleepy

Second is sleep sleep is brain food it's not only brain food it is super food for the brain so if you can get about seven to seven and a half hours of sleep every night you're going to actually increase the ability of the brain to focus and concentrate and the

Third thing you need to look at is exercise a good exercise routine increases the blood circulation and carries oxygen to the brain to help us focus and concentrate and there's one more little practice session that you need to do every single day it's called mindfulness some people call it meditation but don't worry don't be afraid of those big words all it means is doing one single task at a time and focusing on it so for example you're talking to someone only focus on the person don't be checking your phone at the time if you're drinking a glass of juice think about the glass of juice don't be looking at television at the same time so the goal is that in every activity that you do during the day do one thing at a time with full concentration and your mind starts getting trained to focus on the activity that is taking part in and they say more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war the more you practice mindfulness and concentration in the little things every day that attitude is going to carry with you to the high pressure situations of a heavy competitive exam you're going to be able to focus beautifully in that three-hour competitive exam without a problem how to increase your focus and concentration.

 Tip number three is called passion now passion to like focus can be cultivated and I'm going to give you three quick ideas on how you can cultivate the passion the first thing that you need to do is don't start reading the textbook right away on a new chapter a new topic cover to cover text books are not thrillers they are boring so before we open that textbook how about we had an interesting higher level perspective on the topic that makes us super interested in actually reading a textbook so a couple of things you can do you can go to a kitkat chemist video if that's what your subject area is you could also listen to podcasts and they sometimes give you this big picture interesting overview but the idea is first train your mind to first get interested in the topic and then open the textbook and again the textbook we will not read cover to cover we'll use the sq3r technique which we've discussed in the previous article second idea to help you develop passion is to give yourself rewards now when we train our mind we need a reward at the end allowing yourself to make that phone call to a friend it could be playing with your pet or it could be grabbing that small piece of chocolate once in a while and a third idea that's going to keep our interest in that subject is to vary our study techniques if you're reading from a book one time make notes another time go to a video a third time and try different things