![]() Think of why you’re doing what you’re doing. So how do you motivate yourself for less interesting, but important, matters such as academics? That’s the fundamental reason why you get distracted so easily. ![]() And when it comes to things that matter to your academic and professional future, it’s the opposite. You’re already on to these things big time on your own because they interest you. You don’t procrastinate when you’ve to play video games. “Son, I haven’t seen you checking Facebook for a week now. Lack of purpose.Ĭall it whatever you want to, but it’s the single biggest and pivotal factor behind most distractions.ĭo you think Roger Federer gets distracted in his practice sessions? (BTW, he too found it difficult to put in long sessions early on in his career, and back then he used to admire Mirka’s – whom he married later on – work ethic.)ĭo you get distracted when you’re watching YouTube videos? Are you coaxed into playing video games or surfing Facebook? (Note: if you routinely find it difficult to get started on tasks, then you’re likely procrastinating, which you need to control additionally.) How to concentrate on studies without getting distracted? 1. Let’s jump right into some of the steps you can take to study without getting distracted. And it can affect animals too (duration: 1:53 minutes): Few, innocuously short disruptions in your schedule reduce your productivity by lot. The speed-breaker may be just two feet across and the combined width of all of them on your journey may be less than 0.01 percent of the total distance you cover, but it’ll increase your journey time by as much as 20-30 percent.ĭistractions do something similar. But if you face speed-breakers, your average speed will go down significantly, because a speed-breaker forces you to slow down to almost zero before you accelerate back to your top speed. To give an analogy, if you’re driving on a highway with no speed-breakers, you’ll maintain your peak speed almost throughout the journey. That’s an important reason why at the end of the day you wonder why you achieved so much less than what you aimed for in the morning. ![]() Yes, that quick reply to a text can set you back by several minutes, and just count how many distractions you heap on yourself during your most productive hours. How distractions affect your study?Īccording to a University of California-Irvine study, it can take, on average, nearly 20 minutes to get back to the earlier level after an interruption. ![]() But before that, let’s quickly look at how much can distractions drain your schedule. The biggest reason why people fall to distractions is lack of interest in the stuff they’re doing, and that lack of interest largely emanates from absence of an overarching ‘why’ (or the purpose) that can kindle their interest, motivate them.īecause lack of interest is such an important reason leading to distractions, I’ll start with it. In this post, I’ll cover what you lose from distractions ( it’s far, far more than what most of us realize) and steps you can take to be more focused. J.K Rowling was largely absent from social media when she wrote her Harry Potter novels. And he answers the phone only when he knows who is calling. Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who won 2013 Nobel Prize for his work on mass of subatomic particles (remember, Higgs Boson!), works in such isolation that journalists couldn’t find him after he won the Nobel Prize. (Imagine, scientists still working on what Einstein accomplished more than a century back, because Einstein had a mobile phone!) He worked incredibly hard for three years on the subject and eventually published his theory of relativity, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of twentieth century, in the year 1915. When he became convinced that non-Euclidean math (studied by Grossman) was the way to account for gravity in his work on relativity, he went whole hog. You may be putting in hours by the clock, but the output – and that’s what matters, right? – may be equivalent of just four hours of focused study/ work.Īlbert Einstein (sorry, he was super-high-achiever!) knew how to get most of his hours.Īt ETH Institute, Zurich, Einstein worked with mathematician Marcel Grossman. You think you’re studying/ working ten hours a day.
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