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"If motherhood makes you such a good, unvain person, if it's such an evolved state, how come we feel the need to judge so harshly our sisters who choose not to have children, or who, for reasons beyond their control, end up not having any?"
"On Island Love and Mother Love" in Feel Free by Zadie Smith
Photographs of the UK from the 1950s (via).
Pretending to like candles.
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Library of Vienna
“At one level reflection means we see ourselves. At another, it’s another word for the thought process.”
Artful, Ali Smith
An Education (2009)
“Books themselves take time, more time than most of us are used to giving them. Books demand time. Sometimes they take and demand more time than we’re ready or yet know how to grant them [...] They are tangible pieces of time in our hands. We hold them for the time it takes to read them and we move through them and measure time passing by how far through them we’ve got, what the page-edge correlation [...] between the beginning and the end is. Also, they travel with us, they accompany us through from our pasts into our futures, always with their present-tense ability [...] marking from word to word the present moment always in reference to what went before, what’s on its way, in a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, a section, a chapter.”
Ali Smith, Artful
“Books need time to dawn on us, it takes time to understand what makes them, structurally, in thematic resonance, in afterthought, and always in correspondence with the books which came before them, because books are produced by books more than by writers; they’re a result of all the books that went before them. Great books are adaptable; they alter with us as we alter in life, they renew themselves as we change and re-read them at different times in our lives. You can’t step into the same story twice --- or maybe it’s that short stories, books, art, can’t step into the same person twice, maybe it’s that they allow for our mutability, are ready for us at all times, and maybe it’s this adaptability, regardless of time, that makes them art [...].”
Ali Smith, Artful
“We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we’ve read a book after reading it just once.”
Ali Smith, Artful
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I just finished reading Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis and I am very excited to have chosen to read it. For someone who knows very little about the economy and has poor understanding of how our economy works, this book was an eye-opener. An incredibly easy read for the topic it tackles: Varoufakis uses simple language and relies on analogies to explain his arguments. Big thumbs up to the friend who recommended it to me. Thinking of starting with Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth now which was recommended to me by my lit teacher. What are your reading this June?
“You are lovely even in your madness.”
— Henrik Ibsen, from The Complete Works and Selected Writings ; “Catiline,”
"Because libraries have always been a part of any civilization they are not negotiable. They are part of our inheritance."
— Pat Hunter in Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
About motivation
You’ve been a lot to ask me about how to stay motivated, especially in exam period. I know it can be quite hard to focus (even for me it’s challenging!) but I’ll give you some tips I personally use when I’m super un-motivated.
Build a routine. Really try to stick to a routine when you come back home from school, do what works best for you! I personally know that when I have a routine all becomes kind of « automatic » and it gets actually easier for me to study since it became part of my routine! Start slow ! For example, fix yourself a 1-hour study session every evening, then add another hour, etc. Don’t forget to also add some activities in your routine that isn’t study related like working out, reading, etc.
Find a good playlist. You can find tons of them on Youtube. I think it’s better to listen to an instrumental-only playlist so you can get more focused. I know that when I listen to certain playlists, I really get in the mood to study!
Upgrade your workspace! I already wrote a whole post about it here :) With a new and organized workspace, it will be more welcoming and you’ll actually want to spend more time there and therefore study more!
Find your WHY. And I know you’ve heard this one over 10000 times, and that’s because it is SO important. You hate math at school? Think about how amazing it is to use math as an instrument to think and to develop our way to resolve problems! Take every lesson as if it was an occasion to learn something new or at least an occasion that will get you closer towards your dream job/ university
Know when you’re effective. For example, I know that I work better under pressure, so I tend to procrastinate more and then study 10 hours a day the 2 weeks before an exam. So yes, sometimes my pre-exam anxiety is my main motivation to get through everything. Of course, this one doesn’t work if your exam is in two days!
Test yourself. This one works wonders for me. And you know why? Because when I test myself and I actually see all the mistakes I make and it reminds me that I need to study more and I get so stressed that after taking a fake test I’m able to study for 5 hours straight in order to answer all the questions I did wrong aha
Take breaks. It’s totally OBVIOUS and NORMAL that if you’ve been studying for hours without taking a proper break you’ll lose motivation. You’re not a robot. If you just feel you’ve been re-reading the same page of your textbook over and over it’s just time for you to do something else! If you’re short on time, here are some « break taking » ideas. If after a 10-minute break you’re still not effective, I would recommend taking a longer break, like an hour, before starting to study again!
Discipline. Yeah, I know everyone talks about that so-called motivation and blah blah blah but the truth is : no one really wants to stay all day at home or in a library to study. No one really likes getting up at 6 am for a morning workout (or at least for me), but what keeps us going is self-discipline. Sometimes you gotta force yourself, one step at a time, and you’ll see that you’ll trigger your inner « study machine » without even noticing it. Note that this point can be linked to the first one!
Find yourself a study buddy. It isn’t really my thing since I prefer studying alone, but I know that for some people it really makes a difference. Of course, it has to be a study partner and not a gossip partner!
Study in a library or in a coffee shop. I personally prefer coffee shops. I don’t know why but actually having people around me kinds of pressures me to study and to focus and I feel guilty when I check my phone as if people were looking at me because I wasn’t studying. I don’t know if you sometimes feel the same way, but, try it anyway.
If you found these tips useful, please let me know by reblogging and/or liking this post :)
For more similar posts, you can visit my blog : anatomyandcappuccini.tumblr.com
Margot X
Spring feel-good to-do list
Sign up for the delivery of the local organic veggies
Plant some herbs
Clean the windows
Try to make your own kefir
Buy a vase and get those damn flowers
Go for walks in the sun
‘Only light will overcome Darkness’ - Brussels’ Place de la Bourse, 2016.
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