by parnassus » Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:08 pm
sumer, to prevent distractibility you need to find a quiet corner in a quiet room and sit down facing a blank wall. Switch off your mobile if you have one. Disconnect the Internet.
That takes care of external distractions, but internal ones are harder to cope with. My mind goes wild sometimes and I just can't harness it. You should take a ten-minute break at the end of every thirty minutes. Go to a different part of the house during your break, to keep the distinction between home and study area separate, but make sure you are away no longer than ten minutes.
I also find it helps to write lists of what I need to study, splitting each subject up into topics. For instance:
HISTORY
Britain's role in the slave trade
The life of William Wilberforce
'Slave cities' (Liverpool, Bristol, etc)
Decide which topics are the most urgent and study those first. Tick them off as you go.
"This above all, to thine own self be true." - Polonius, Hamlet.