What potential distractions do you have when studying?

Joseph41

Just thought this might be an interesting discussion on more of the study preparation side of things - so I'm thinking things like how you set up your study area.

Do you intentionally limit distractions? I remember there was this one specific place in the school library where I liked to study, because really the only potential distraction available to me was a stack of newspapers. I actually got into a routine of reading the newspaper in the morning to relax a bit, and then getting a bit of study done before school, without distractions of my phone/other people etc.

How about you?

Not_A_Teacher

I find it really hard to focus on my studies since the switch to using e-book all the time. Any tips?

Joseph41

Not_A_Teacher What are you using for the e-books? Like are you getting distracted by other stuff available on that same device?

jinx_58

Music. Like when new music comes out, Spotify's like 'hey look! an awesome band just released some really good music I think you'll like!'
And I do end up liking it. Then I wanna listen to the whole album. But I can't gotta studyyyyy.

-jinx_58

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jinx_58
kinda random, but he username jinx have a meaning to it?
Also, for music, I suggest trying to only listen to music here there are no lyrics or lyrics in a different language so you don't know what they are saying and can't sing it easily. Just my experience really, cuz when I listen to songs in my language, I end up wasting an hour. But ever since I started listening to korean, japanese and other music, I have been able to focus more.

Anthony_Watson

Atarnotes. Funnily enough XD

I just procrastinate my time and although many of the articles are fairly interesting, unfortunately my exam revision is much more of a priority

Tas

Anthony_Watson reading this while procrastinating... i'll stop though. soon.

Cardamon

Music to an extent, usually when I study I'll listen to a bunch of video game OSTs while I study and I'll jam out occasionally. In general for me though, having to study at home where there's a bunch of distractions is not ideal, so studying in a library, café or literally elsewhere will make me concentrate much better-

asteroid

Temperature. I can't focus when it's too hot, which is very inconvenient when you can barely afford air conditioning and are about to enter Aussie summer T_T

Billzene

Linalg (I know, weird). When I was supposed to be smashing out organic reaction mechanisms and molecular orbital diagrams, I was procrastinating by reading linalg books. Didn't have enough space to do MTH1030 as I wanted to graduate this year and I had to take this useless communication unit to do so

Leeshi

Tas
For real.