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Post by Goblin King on Mar 14, 2006 22:54:14 GMT
Okay, you're studious bunch.  What do you do when your reading a text book, but it just isn’t going in or you can’t concentrate? In my case it’s mainly software self-help books for intermediate dummies (and Dungeons and Dragons Rule books ). I’ve had this since school, it plagued me at college, and I know I’m not the only one. Getting glasses seems to helped a little. ha ha. Blah, feels silly even posting this.  Any tips? |
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Post by ۞ Starlight ۞ on Mar 15, 2006 6:46:02 GMT
err..well..I type EVERYTHING i have up, any notes I take, anything i read from text books, that way, its easy to refer to and by re-typing it, its sticking in my head more because i have to get every word and everything right! I dunno...i just have a lot of free time on my hands!
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Post by DAT500 on Mar 15, 2006 6:59:14 GMT
Yeah, Starlight's right, notes are the best way. The other technique I use is to resist acceptance of the wandering mind: Y'know where an idea in the literature sends you off on a separate journey. You have to have the discipline to keep going back until your brain can immerse itself into the text - of course this doesn't work if you're reading something that's not worth the effort.
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Post by Dos on Mar 15, 2006 10:34:17 GMT
Sugar-free Red Bull
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Post by Tinkerbell on Mar 15, 2006 16:45:35 GMT
Don't do it when you're tired or hungry etc. You have to be in the right mood. Best way to make notes is to write a key sentence from a paragraph.
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 18:32:27 GMT
Tired or hungry? What ? *mind wanders off to fridge and bed ...* Thanks for the tips guys. I will try Red Bull, once I found out what Taurine is and whether or not it's veggie. Yes, the mind and eyes do wander. Perhaps it's too warm in this house and I'm nodding off.  |
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Post by Count Überquart on Mar 15, 2006 18:37:56 GMT
If you read it looking for key bits and then write them bit out... maybe?
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Post by hoggle on Mar 15, 2006 19:03:48 GMT
dont force urself to sit and read if your mind keeps wandering... cause you'll take even less of it in...
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 19:57:49 GMT
Thanks dudes. I do what the cats do - after a while I just sit on the book. Apparrently they absorb knowledge that way.  |
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Post by tiggbaker4 on Mar 15, 2006 20:01:31 GMT
Read it out loud and record it then go make ya coffee or food and play it back to yourself while ya do a different job like washing up etc
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:08:32 GMT
Okay, that's to much like revision now. ;D Washing up?  Bleurgh  |
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Post by tiggbaker4 on Mar 15, 2006 20:15:37 GMT
thats my point washing up is so awful that you concentrate on the tape lol
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:18:03 GMT
Ah ha! Yes, there is some method it that madness! ;D
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Post by tiggbaker4 on Mar 15, 2006 20:20:25 GMT
madness I have an abundance of..................... did I tell you I've begun an honours degree through the open university............... 21 ish this year and I'm doing a degree ..................... it's madness I tell you madness
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:22:35 GMT
Well, you've told me now, twice. 21 years to complete a degree? |
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Post by tiggbaker4 on Mar 15, 2006 20:25:11 GMT
you jest the rate I'm going 21 years will be a quick finish lol
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:26:59 GMT
Keep adding up them modules. |
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Post by tiggbaker4 on Mar 15, 2006 20:28:55 GMT
only on the first don't take much adding yet lol
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:43:48 GMT
 It'll be a while before we call you "Professor" then? |
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Post by Tinkerbell on Mar 15, 2006 20:45:31 GMT
, once I found out what Taurine is and whether or not it's veggie. Really don't, it's full of so much crap. |
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:49:18 GMT
Why do I get the feeling it would keep me awake but not help the concentration? |
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Post by Tinkerbell on Mar 15, 2006 20:50:47 GMT
Yup then you feel like someone has hit you over the head with a hammer and stolen your energy after about 30 mins
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 20:59:17 GMT
So the wings come with a price? Goddamn - everything has a price! |
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Post by DAT500 on Mar 15, 2006 22:08:20 GMT
Red Bull: Where cars go to wank.
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 15, 2006 22:17:16 GMT
How poetic. ;D
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Post by lollipop on Mar 16, 2006 2:24:49 GMT
Take a complete break from it. Then go back to it later, or another time, and see if it goes in any better. In my experience, the more you try to make it go in when you're really not in the mood, the less it wants to go in!
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Post by Goblin King on Mar 16, 2006 19:15:13 GMT
Yes. Sometimes those breaks have stretched into years. ;D Thanks. hee hee. Silly books. |
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