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manifesting good grades for this school year!

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Toxic Productivity and Academic Validation

Oh, studyblr, we love to romantize study and academic validation but are these actually good for our mental health and long-term academic goals?

Have perfect grades. Study a little a more. Work yourself to the ground. Only accept the best grade. Study until you cant anymore and then push to study more. Do it until it's perfect and then again because it will never be perfect. Study. Study tired. Study non stop. Dont stop study. Be productive. Everything has to be productive.

THIS IS BULLSHIT

Academic validation is one of the fundations of the study community. It has to go. At first, it sounds nice, it's motivation. Until you get a bad grade, then you are crying in the restroom stall and hating yourself. Until you dont understand a topic and want to bang your head to the wall because "i need to pass that test". Until studying is something to fear. Until your brain shut downs because it associates study with negative feelings.

Aim for good grades, study for good grades, but dont attach your self-worth to them. You arent dumb if you fail and bad grade isnt the end of the world.

"Study till [..] and then study a little more because it is never enough" REST for the the love of god. A tired brain doesnt learn, it just feels like shit. Health comes first and even if you wont listen and still decide to put study first, just keep in mind that being sick or feeling bad reduces the quality of your study and makes it harder to learn. Take care of yourself to make study easier and better.

Study for long period of times, but do it right. Stop when you need it.

All the toxic productivity, the pushing when your body tells you to stop isnt okay. Yes, we need to get rid of procrastination but taking breaks is a completely different thing but some are treating it as the same. Dont let a random tumblr post make you feel guilty for taking a much needed rest. Working yourself to the ground wont help you study any better, it will just lead to burnout, stress, mental health declive and bad grades when all those practices catch up. Taking a break is productive, and even if it wasnt, you dont need to be productive 24/7

And before anyone goes "dont encourage people with procrastination problems to countine that way" this post isnt about that. This is about not letting toxic productivity ruin your mental (and physcal) health.

We are in studyblr because we want to learn, not to ruin our health and well-being for the sake of a grade. There needs to be a balance with study and self-care.

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time managment is so complicated when you are chronically ill. some days its like it isnt there, others i feel dead, but i cant predict that. "oh, ill do it on thursday, i have the time then" wrong! its thursday and i feel like shit, cant do it.

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enough of pretty aesthetic notes, i want messy, shitass handwriting, chaotic notes only you can understand

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Study Tip #18

Get into study mode. Do the same rutine before every study session so your brain relates that to studying. Something small, like lighting a candle, organizing pens by color, preparing coffee/tea on your favourite mug, etc.

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productivity in weekends be like:

expectation: i will do everything i have to do during saturday, spaced out so i can chill too and then take the sunday off to rest

reality: does absolutely nothing the entire weekend and then rush-does the entire thing at 8pm sunday

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How to not feel bad about bad grades!

1. Remember you are not your notes or grades, It doesn't define you.

2. You can always do better the next time, learn from your mistakes and get better from your failure

3.You are allowed to feel bad but don't let get into your head and ruin your day. Do things to clear your head (watch a movie, write, hang out with friends, anything that makes you feel good)

4. Rest!! take time for yourself

5. Implement a new method for studying, Spent more time practicing or reading about the subjects.

6.Learn how to deal with frustration,( and Im sorry to tell you this but to have a resistance to failure you have to fail ,and learn from that.)

7. Don't compare yourself to other people.

And remember its not a big deal, a note or grade its not who you are, It doesnt matter if you fail because you can always try again and if someone makes you feel bad about failing, don't listen to them! I spent too much time feeling bad about failing a test so, I wanted to give advice that has helped me overcome that feeling!

Love ya!

-Ben

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Friendly Reminder

that you dont need to study everyday to be "productive" or "studyblr". You are allowed to have entire days for yourself. Not more toxic productivity aka driving yourself to burn-out