Ana

|19|University student|Violinist|Science Major|

[studyblrrsworld]

How to be more productive

Some people are God gifted they have a sharp mind, wonderful memory and jaw dropping creativity. Everyone is not productive and creative. Some people are genius but they need some special guide lines to become creative and more productive. Now we will define that what is productivity? “Productivity is about making smart choices with your energy, focus and time in order to maximize your potential and achieve beneficial results.” Mohammad  Faris

Now I will tell you that how to be a productive person? Let’s start!

1. Choose your energy hours

Everyone has a specific time during a day when he is more active and energetic. When his energy level is higher than usual. When your energy level is higher this is a real time to take an advantage from your energy. Don’t waste this chance. Take your energy and do your majority of work in this time. Usually morning time is suitable for deep thinking. If feel difficulty in finding your energy hours, then work in different hours in the day. Deeply see which time allows you to work best, this is your energy hour when you are more productive and active.

2. Maintain your routines

After a serious struggle, once you have found your energy hours now it is time to show consistency on that time. Work daily on the same time which is your energy hour. Make schedule of your daily routines. For example

When do you go to school?

When do you like to study?

When do you take rest?

Do you relax for some time after coming back from your school, college or university?

Do you make tidy your room on Sunday?

When you watch TV shows or any other video?

Establish a schedule for each activity, this will help to manage your time for creative work. After this you are less likely to get side tracked. You will become much more likely to maximize your productivity.

3. Make to-do lists

Yes, it’s a good idea to write lists of activities that you have to do, which are more important than others. For example, writing your home work is more important than watching wrestling. So always do your important task first and make a list of these tasks that you have completed.

Don’t try to do a task for which you haven’t managed your time. So instead of relying on your to-do list add the task to your list for future. When you are easy to complete this task then do it. And put it into your weekly or daily schedule. This will ensure the task must be completed.

 4. Avoid from multi-task

No one can perform multi tasks at a time at once. Although you are able to complete this task but concentrate on important task that you have to do according to your schedule first. Don’t do so but focus on a single task at a time. When you are putting your full attention on a single task you are more likely able to do it fast and accurately at high standard. This will give you a spiritual peace which you can feel only.

5. Complete similar tasks in single attempt

For example, if you are studying a topic and you have to write that topic in your note book. These two tasks of learning and writing are much similar. So instead of performing these two tasks in different time, complete them together. This will save your time and you are more likely to get engaged with your study.

On Sunday create some flash cards for biology, chemistry or physics topics, then revise these topics and then do some past papers of your topic. This will ensure your mind is concentrated on single thing and not constantly switching gears. Always get your cores together and study only one subject at a time. Send your emails and messages one time in a day. In end I will advise you, don’t interrupt your tasks with unrelated task.

6. Do easy and quick tasks first

If you have to visit a doctor, then do it first because health is necessary to complete each task. If you are sick, then you can never perform a single task correctly. Doing easy and less time taking tasks first is a right way. It will leave you with ample time to tackle more and more challenging one’s you have got up ahead. It will also provide a peace to your mind that you have done something creative today.

7. Take regular breaks

Rest is necessary for your mental health. You are a human not a machine. So take regular breaks during your work. Productivity is not a continuous work like a donkey. Always keep in mind that “Being productive is about knowing when to work hard, when to take rest and when to have a fun and when to be a serious person. It’s all about making smart choices.”

8. Priorities about your projects

For example, you want to go a city by a train and train take 2 hours while a bus takes one and half hour. So it is a time to change your priority travel through bus it will save your time. Make sure that how you can save your time by making important priorities. Make sure always that you have spent your time in productive mode. This will give you a lot of benefit. It will bring you closer to your goals.

9. Self-accountability

Make some strict promises to yourself and write them in your dairy. Try to fulfill these promises strictly at least for one month after this it will become your habit. At the end of week make report of your tasks and promises and give it to your guide like teacher or parents. This will lead you to a right and productive way.

10. Review your progress

 At the end of the day, evaluate you progress and find your mistakes and promise yourself to remove bugs. What you have accomplished today? What did you do well today? What did you not complete today? How could you improve yourself? When will you complete your remaining tasks?

After asking yourself these questions and being an honest person to yourself will help you to see when you are going right and when you are going false. I hope this will be a helpful article. Stay blessed!  

[emmastudies]

How to take notes from a textbook

Knowing what to and what not to write down from a textbook is a often an issue when studying. Should I include this or is that completely necessary? Hopefully these few tips will help anyone struggle to use their textbook!

Read the textbook prior to taking notes - This helps give you a solid understanding of the material so you can summarise and shorten your notes. Have a good understanding is great to help shorten your notes, since you can avoid copying the menial information.

Highlight some key points, terms and concepts before taking notes - Remember not to over-highlight, keep it brief and minimal; key words, facts, and statistics!

Have a colour coding system - This helps to visualise your notes when trying to memorise information and also makes your notes more effective material to learn from. Making sure you’re using the same colours for highlighting your textbook and writing your notes. My colour coding system can be found here.

Use the layout of the textbook to organise your notes - I found copying the headings and subheadings really helped simplify and ensure I was learning each section. It’s much easy to find information when you’re skimming through notes. This also ensures that you can remember what topic areas relate to others, meaning you can add more into your essays under exam conditions!

Include different ways to show the information - Use mindmaps, bullet points, graphs, flow chats, and post-it notes to help visualise the content. Breaking up your notes with graphics is a good way to avoid full pages of writing and great for memorising statistics or key elements of a topic.

Supplement your notes - Use other textbooks and your own research to expand the depth of your notes. This is highly important for subjects that can require evidence, statistics and evaluations. Making sure this information is embedded into your notes is great for writing essays.

Add your own personal touch - Add doodles, acronyms, and abbreviations to help your study. Little things that make important information unique and standout will help you recall it later!

Summarise each chapter - Make a final summary of each chapter using sticky notes or flash cards. Once you’ve read your textbook, you’ll have a collection of chapter summaries ready to study from.

Each of these tips have helped me recreate notes that are well-rounded and full of brief but useful information. I hope this information helps. Let me know if it does! 

[eintsein]

Getting Stuff Done: How to Deal With Lack of Motivation

“How can I stay disciplined?”

“How can I get things done if I don’t feel like doing them?”

“How can I overcome my lack of motivation?”

As a college student who has had their fair share of being absolutely unmotivated to do anything, I know it can be hard to get things done if you don’t feel like doing them. Luckily, there are some things you can do to become more motivated to finish your homework, write your paper, study for your exam, or whatever tasks you have on your plate.

Part 1: Increasing motivation

Break up your tasks

Just thinking about one huge task is going to intimidate you so much that you’d rather leave it till later, when the urgency of time pushes you to complete it, than start now.

Breaking up your big tasks into smaller ones will make your tasks seem less daunting. Since you won’t be as intimidated by the amount of effort it might take to complete these tasks, you’ll be more likely to start doing them.

For studying, this can be something like ‘make flashcards for units 1-3’ or ‘practice past exam papers: 2015 + 2016’. For writing papers, this could be writing an outline, doing research for each point of your outline, writing the first 3 paragraphs, etc.

Working on small tasks at a time will also make you less prone to distractions since you only need to focus for a short length of time.

Make small goals and reward yourself

These goals could be accomplishing one of the smaller subtasks above, or achieving a certain grade on a practice test, or finishing a section of your study plan - as long as you’re working towards something.

The rewards? Maybe going out to eat, watching something, or even just time off. Hopefully these rewards will motivate you to complete your task.

I know some people are more inclined to do their work if they’re punished for not doing it, rather than rewarded for doing it, so if you wanna take the ‘punishment’ approach, you could do something like not allowing yourself to use social media until you finish a set of tasks - this is essentially the same thing, just thought about in a different manner. However, you should always be careful with these punishments/restrictions, because sometimes they can end up harming your health and productivity (e.g. ‘I can’t take a break until I finish all of my homework’).

Part 2: Not relying on motivation

Of course, you can’t always expect yourself to be motivated all the time. In fact, it’s very ineffective to rely on motivation to get things done; motivation is fleeting. Here’s an alternative: self-discipline. But how does it work?

Establish a study routine

Humans are creatures of habit. Even if you’re a P-type (like me), habits are hard to break. So making a habit of accomplishing your tasks/studying at a set time every day will help you, well, accomplish them. For example, it’s a lot easier to get your homework done every day if you do it at the same time - e.g. once you come home from school - rather than doing it ‘whenever you have time’.

Having a study routine will also make you less likely to be distracted since you know that that period of time had a purpose. If you’re trying this out for the first time, you might wanna completely get rid of distractions so that you can focus (e.g. putting your phone in your bag, on silent). However, with practice, I found that my phone or any other sources of distraction don’t really bother me anymore since I’ve had tons of practice resisting the urge to pick up my phone whenever there’s a notification, for example.

Schedule in time for breaks

This ties in well with the point about rewards: the break might be the reward for your studying. However, this doesn’t always have to be the case. You shouldn’t always think of relaxing as merely a reward for studying or accomplishing your tasks, but rather a necessity for the well-being of your mind. This sort of approach to breaks ensures that you actually let your brain rest once in a while.

After taking a break, your mind will be refreshed and revitalized, and you should have more than enough energy to continue with your other tasks.

Some of you asked - with regards to my previous post on The Mandatory Midday Break - how I can limit myself to exactly an hour, and to be honest, the answer is habit. It’s like having a habit of showering at the same time every day and not extend the length of time you spend in the bathroom (except in certain circumstances, like during a day off, I guess).

This is why it’s important to schedule your breaks and establish a study routine or habit - not only does it ensure you get enough rest, but it also prevents you from extending your break so that you don’t become unproductive and leave a ton of tasks unfinished.

It can be hard to motivate yourself to accomplish all your tasks, but there are things you can do to increase your motivation. However, you can’t expect to be motivated all the time, and you shouldn’t rely on motivation to get things done. Discipline and habit are the most important tools you can use to be efficient and productive without having to be motivated.

Hope this post has been helpful, and, as always, feel free to drop me an ask if you have an ask. Have an awesome week :)

[starsandaspirations]

this december, i will focus. this december, i will do better. this december, i will study harder. this december, i believe in myself.

[imafuckingdoctor]

How I study for finals

The most important step, PLAN PLAN AND PLAN!

This includes both a bigger plan for how you’re gonna cover the syllabus and a smaller day to day plan, for example if I have one month’s worth of classes in a final, I’ll usually do 5-7 day’s worth in one day. And I start out by the things I know very least. What I find most useful is downloading a calendar and filling it in this is an example of my brutal internal medicine schedule

As you can see, I don’t go by the order of the class schedule, instead I divide topics depending on what I already know most about and plan accordingly, taking both order and workload into consideration (obviously the things in lilac above would take a fraction of time compared to the things in yellow for example) and when it comes to reviewing, I go through the yellow stuff first. A crucial thing I do is that I leave at least 2-3 days empty because we all know schedules don’t always go as planned. And obviously this isn’t my entire IM syllabus, I already finished cardiopulmonology and other branches so I didn’t include them.

As for the actual day plan, I find that studying for the entire day can be extremely tough for me and wears me out like crazy, I only do one study session in the morning, spend 3-5 hours hanging out with people or playing sims, whatever I want basically, do practice questions for 2 more hours (relevant to that study session of course) and chill out for the rest of the night.

Moral of the story, pulling an all day study session/cramming=early burn out. You don’t want that so literally plan every part of your day, this is a crucial time.

I always say this but it’s so important, passive reading is NOT ENOUGH DO SOME PRACTICE TESTS/MCQs or whatever you can. Like I said, I do practice questions for things I’ve went over every single night during finals and that honestly imo is waaaay more important than just reading the stuff over and over. An important thing to mention here is to NOT GET DISCOURAGED when you get stuff wrong, that’s actually something you learned and you won’t make that same mistake again so .. it’s all good, you’re making progress.

That’s the main part of how I actually study, below are some of my tips that I stick to by heart.

Use the same source you learned from during the year this is crucial for your memory, do not *spontaneously* decide to use a different textbook or source just before your finals, whatever you studied from HAS TO BE what you revise from.

All nighters won’t do you any good Obviously your brain needs to sleep in order to consolidate information so just make sure you get enough sleep, some people study better at night and they get plenty of sleep during the day, not the ideal situation for your circadian rhythm or hormones but if it works for you, do it (it’s finals, we’re all practically dead anyways) .. yeah just make sure you get some sleep in. And trust me when I say no matter how much you think you can cram and get in during those hours you’ll be sleeping, sleep is so much more important than that, I know it’s tempting but GO TO BED.

Now is not the ideal time to eat absolute garbage food because you’ll feel like shit and (if you’re anything like me) won’t get anything done …so just eat the best way you can and I’m not gonna be one of those people who tell you to work out because I can’t bring myself to do it during finals, it’s just too much for my lazy ass .. but I do stretch every now and then and my “breaks” usually consist of me going on a walk or something. So just do little things that can make you feel good but don’t freak out if you can’t exercise or get 2 hours in at the gym, just keep a healthy balance. I have no idea if there’s any scientific background to this but I (think) honestly believe that almonds help with my memory?

Know that it’s honestly okay to stop when you’ve had enough and that everything eventually ends and that a bunch of numbers (your grade) DOES NOT DEFINE YOU. So what if you lose a few marks? So what if you don’t get this and this right? Even if you fail, what the fuck is wrong with that? You’ll learn from your mistakes and do better. The fact that you’re trying to better yourself and trying to learn new study techniques is enough, you should be proud of yourself regardless of the outcome.

[untoldxstories8921]

“You can’t change the past, my love. And ‘what ifs’ only make the pain last longer.”

Dust In Sunbeams - untoldxstories8921

[chibird]

Whether it’s eating well or exercising or taking your correct medication, please take care of yourself if you can! You in the future will be grateful!

[ahyesmysavedstudystuff]

When to use flash cards: memorizing words/vocab, numbers, equations, names, dates, and verbatim facts or lines.

When to use mnemonic devices: memorizing steps of a process or sets of facts/information/people, especially in an order.

When to use concept maps or drawings: learning (rather than memorizing) relationships, processes, concepts, systems, etc.

When to use tables or charts: learning or memorizing systems (eg. conjugation in a foreign language), sets of sets of information (eg. people and when they lived and what they did), and other large/complex groups of information.

When to use songs: for learning or memorizing anything.

Disclaimer: this is a general guideline. If something else works for you, do it!

[praxidicis]

studying mood: panic! at the desk-o

[anatomyandcappuccini]

ADOPTING A GOOD MINDSET BEFORE EXAMS

Today is THE day, the day you’ve been stressing about for a few weeks, or maybe even a few months. Today you have an important exam, or maybe you just have a regular chemistry test. Anyway, you’re feeling anxious because obviously this is a stressful situation and you feel your heart rate accelerating,  short on breath and your legs are shaking.

You’re also around many people that feel the exact same way as you and it doesn’t help.

I’ve been in this situation so many times and felt so bad, especially for really important exams. That’s why I wanted to tell you about how I got used to managing this pre-exam feeling and how it can help you to feel more confident and -may I say relaxed?

Of course, these tips are also useful if you have an interview or anything that could have put you in a stressful situation !

If you’re around too many anxious people, take a step back and go in a quieter place. Anxiety is contagious, even if you don’t realize it. Seeing everyone shouting at loud questions about a specific topic or hearing about how good your friend has studied will only make you feel worse. If you like staying around people, try to change subject with your friends, talk about what you’ll do after the exam and if you’re alone, listen to some music or do anything that can distract you. If you have a presentation to make, use this time to think about what you are going to say, or how you will present yourself.

Have confidence in what you’ve studied and accept the fact that it’s now too late for whatever topic you haven’t reviewed. Re-reading notes 5 minutes before the exam is the most useless thing in a world, but it can be reassuring. Being aware that you don’t know everything can be really stressful so that’s why it’s better to be well prepared in the first place. Just tell yourself that you’ve done what you can so that there’s no reason you could fail that exam. Have confidence in your capacities, and tell yourself that you know the topic really well.

Imagine yourself in a successful situation. Imagine yourself acing your exam/interview, knowing all the answers, imagine how you’re gonna feel knowing that you’ve succeeded, imagine your main goal and how happy you will be once you’ve achieved it. Again, it’s all about feeling confident and attracting all the good vibes you need. Remember that complaining about how you suck and how lame you are won’t get you anywhere.

Don’t forget to B-R-E-A-T-H-E : 5 secs in, 5 secs out. Do it till you feel better. Focusing on your breathing will distract you from all the chaos and anxiousness around you. Your heart will have a normal beat again, and you’ll bring more oxygen to your brain, which could be useful in these kinds of situations :P

Make sure you are ON TIME! There’s nothing worse than being late for an exam, as your anxiety levels may triple because of it. Plan all the stuff you need to bring the day before, check the itinerary if the exam/appointment is in an unknown place and how long it will take to go there.

I’ve been practicing these tips since I started med school and I’ve always found them very helpful. Let me know if it works for you too!!

Good luck with your exam!!

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[alkavienkeisarinna]

HOW TO TEACH YOURSELF LANGUAGES SUPER EFFICIENTLY

I write this bcz I’m a huge language enthusiast and I’m frustrated about the way most methods and language classes/courses approach the process of learning. I’m not a professional but I have a lot of experience in studying foreign languages: I have taught myself Lithuanian and reached the upper intermediate level (B2) in 4-5 years without much help from others, and in Spanish reaching the same level took me only 2 years bcz I simultaneously studied it at school and already knowing French helped me a little. I want to help everyone who wants to start a new language, does not have the possibility to join a language course or just feels frustrated of the stagnation they might experience in the early phase of learning a foreign language.

So, if you want to learn a new language, I suggest following tips:

• Immerse yourself from the beginning! This is really important so that you can get yourself familiar with the intonation and pronunciation of the language. Listen to radio or tv and try to read whatever you can (ingredient lists from the food packages, newspaper articles, whatever!) it doesn’t matter if you can’t understand much yet, it will come! If you start a language with a new alphabet learn the alphabet really well first thing.

• Get an overview of the grammatical structure of the language! This is often not properly done in language courses where you learn some vocabulary and greetings but after 60 pages of the textbook you still have no idea how many verb tenses or noun cases the language has. Take a look even at the “hardest” topics, bcz they might not be that hard after all. (for example the Spanish equivalent of past perfect is much easier than the present tense) 

 • With that being said, learn to recognise past tenses even when you are still learning the present tense! I find it absurd that most courses expect you to master present tense _perfectly_ before even taking a look at other tenses. Most of the time, in everyday communication, past tenses are used more frequently than the present tense + in some languages mastering the past tense can also help you to form the conditional. So, learn the past tense earlier than most ppl would recommend!

 • In general, study the easiest things first! If you find something particularly difficult you gain more confidence and knowledge if you first focus on what you find more interesting (however, you can’t postpone studying boring topics eternally, especially if you are preparing or hoping to prepare for an exam at some point) In Lithuanian, I taught myself a lot of grammar before learning how to tell the time… and it was ok.

• For material: usually the country’s universities have a reading list on their website which proposes what books one could use to study the language. These are often preferable to handbooks aimed for tourists and some language methods for beginners because those mostly focus on useless vocabulary you might only need when you rent a car or book a room in a hotel. The grammar is often also relatively poorly explained in those “tourist language books”, whereas books that are aimed at immigrants or university students usually focus more on the efficient language acquisition and are written by professors and specialists. If you are persistent enough and google all possible search words in both English and the target language,  you can probably find whole textbooks in PDF format, which you can then save on your laptop.

• Don’t get stuck on vocabulary! Remember that grammar is the skeleton of the language and that vocabulary is the muscles hair and eventually the clothes you use to dress up and embellish your apperance. Vocabulary is useful once you know how to use it. For me, learning vocab is the hardest part of a new language, especially bcz I like starting languages that are not really similar to any other languages I know (consider Lithuanian and Greek when I previously knew Finnish, English, French and Spanish) ofc you need to learn some of it to be able to form sentences but most traditional methods focus on that too much. My suggestion is to read a lot: start by children’s books and comics and gradually get more advanced material. When you read them, make notes!! Look up the words you don’t know and don’t be afraid of using unconventional, seemingly challenging ways to learn, such as buying a bilingual poetry collection and trying to decipher what the original poem says and compare it to the translation. 100% recommend, even for the beginner level + it’s a nice way to connect to the culture but still focus on the language itself, not on the way ppl make breakfast in that country. (That’s something that irritates me a lot in most Youtube’s language videos where ppl are just discussing the traditions of the country in English when you had come there to look for the explanation of grammatical structures or just to hear the language being spoken. smh.)

• A really important thing about vocabulary is to learn all the abstract words, such as conjunctions, really soon! For example, if you find yourself in a situation where you have to use the words therefore and otherwise,  it is almost impossible to try to explain those words without first translating them to another language. 

• Make vocabulary learning more interesting and deep by learning about the etymology of the words you learn. It can be mind-blowing and it helps you to remember the words better.

That’s it!

I hope these tips inspire you in pursuing your interest in foreign languages and facilitate your learning process. I might add more to this if I remember I have forgotten something of great importance. 

[lilboreddev-blog]

REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

[poeticfog]

9 million people fucking love dogs

[tracknumber06]

Here we come 10.

[dark-eyed-harmothoe]

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

[bifrostiron]

I’ve finally found it again

the elusive 10 million note post

they say no two people reblog it with the same original text

[soniadiazflores]

Transition Words For Your Essays

Transition Signals:

Transitions are words and phrases that connect ideas and show how they are related.

To repeat and ideas just stated:

In other words,

That is,

To repeat,

Again,

To illustrate an idea:

For example,

For instance,

In particular,

To illustrate,

In this manner,

Thus,

To announce a contrast, a change in direction:

Yet,

However,

Still,

Nevertheless,

On the other hand,

In contrast,

Instead of,

On the contrary,

Conversely,

Notwithstanding,

In spite of this,

Time:

At once,

In the interim,

At length,

Immediately,

At last,

Meanwhile,

In the meantime,

Presently,

At the same time,

Shortly,

In the end,

Temporarily,

Thereafter,

To restate an idea more precisely:

To be exact,

To be specific,

To be precise,

More specifically,

More precisely,

To mark a new idea as an addition to what has been said:

Similarly,

Also,

Too,

Besides,

Furthermore,

Further,

Moreover,

In addition,

To show cause and effect:

As a result,

For this reason,

Thereafter,

Hence,

Consequently,

Accordingly,

Conclusion:

In short,

To conclude,

In brief,

On the whole,

In summary,

To sum up,

[savageapprentice]

Important

[jamblasian]

Reblogging again bc I need this at the moment

[samsstudygram]

ways to study for exams that are actually productive

use actual note cards for vocab. yes, apps like quizlet are dandy when you’re on the go, but actually physically writing out each note card helps put the information into memory faster than typing them.

visual learner? make charts and diagrams. they don’t have to be pretty. the lines don’t have to be perfectly straight. it doesn’t have to be photogenic. but if it helps you learn, do it.

after you take notes (in class or at home/from your text book), write down possible quiz questions about the material on the next page while it’s still fresh in your mind. later on when you’re studying for the test, use these questions to gauge what specifics out of that chapter you need to work on the most.

start sooner rather than later. i know, you’ve heard this a million times from every teacher ever. but it’s legit. especially as you get into harder level classes and college courses because there is literally so much material that the tests cover that you simply can not accurately learn all of it over night. instead, start about 10 days in advance (but of coarse, the sooner the better).

studying doesn’t have to be a big giant study session that takes hours. if you start far enough in advance, study sessions can be around an hour, hell even 45 minutes is a good. if you go too long in one study session your brain will be fried and studying will be pointless because your brain won’t be processing any of it. that’s why it’s important to take breaks and not just cram for 5 hours the night before an exam.

actually study. hold yourself accountable and make your education a priority. if you have homework and studying to do, make it a priority over going partying or watching tv. there will be another party. you can dvr your show. you can’t take your test on a later day because you don’t feel ready. so be ready.

be careful with study groups. if you have a study group with all of your best friends, lets face it, you’re going to end up spending more time talking about harry styles and supernatural than actually studying. it’s better to have a study group with people who are your friends, but not best friends. and it’s better to keep it between 5-7 people so that everyone can be involved.

if the material is just super confusing and you can’t seem to understand it no matter how hard you study, it’s not you. it’s the way you were taught it. each teacher teaches a bit differently, and maybe their style of teaching just isn’t for you. if this happens, find a way that explains it the best for you. for example, if chemistry is just super confusing for you, try watching the Crash Course chemistry videos on youtube or have a friend explain it to you. this will give you a completely different perspective on the material and will help you understand it better.

at the end of the day, remember that everything will be okay. studying can be stressful, especially if it’s in a class that you struggle in. but i promise you that you are not the only one who struggles sometimes in school, it’s a part of being human. as long as you actually put in an effort and try your best, be proud of yourself. take a deep breath. and remember: you got this.

[phoebe-does]

just because you might be slower to learn things or it’s harder for you to understand things does not mean you’re stupid and it does not mean you’ll never be able to get it. Sometimes it just means you’re going about it wrong, maybe you can’t learn like the rest of your class from a textbook, maybe you need someone reading it to you for you to be able to understand. Or maybe it just takes more practice. Whatever you do, don’t give up, you will get there. I believe in you, granted it might take a little longer, but it’s so worth it. Don’t give up, you’ve got this.

[emmastudies]

three steps to getting things done!

[coffeeandmoorland]

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with the insatiable desire to learn. To know astronomy and geography and language and architecture; to recognize each constellation, planet, and star; to speak and understand all languages, be able to decipher ancient Greek and Latin text; to grow my understanding of how the human body works; study the differences and similarities of each religion; recognize the use for each herb and seed and sapling.

I want to better myself, not for fame or recognition or power. I just want to understand.