Why can't I study?

wings12

I mean I love my course but have zero motivation to study. I would just rather sit around, do you have any tips to get out of this pattern of behaviour? Its very hard to get organised and motivated. Lack of motivation is where my sickness lies.

scrimshanker

When you say you have zero motion, you'd rather just sit around, you need to clarify why that is.

Is it that you can sit down and focus no problem if you decide to, but you just choose not to?

Do you sit down and try to start but can't focus?

Do you think about starting all day but just not get around to it?

Saipanne

wings12 wrote: »

I mean I love my course but have zero motivation to study. I would just rather sit around, do you have any tips to get out of this pattern of behaviour? Its very hard to get organised and motivated. Lack of motivation is where my sickness lies.

Do you like money? If so, laying around will ensure that you spend your life struggling with it.

HelgaWard

Only you can answer that question. Stop wasting time and start studying!!

Lux23

You are looking for a cure for procrastination, something that I don't think really exists.

Diziet

It's very simple really - I order to do well in your course you have to put the work in. Of you don't, you get rubbish results or fail.

At the moment you are choosing not to study. There isn't magic in it, it is an active choice. It's up to you if you choose to put the work in and get value out of the course.

A good tip is to pick something, put a timer on and do it for 5 minutes. At the end of the five minutes see if you want to do a bit more. This tends to make starting abut easier, but as I said, there is no magic, but on the other hand there is a lot of satisfaction in doing something well. Your choice, you are not at school, it's up to you what you do and how well you do it.

Pawwed Rig

Get out of the house. Goto a library without your phone and where you know no one. Stay there for at least 4 hours. You now have nothing else to do other than study.

zeffabelli

What are you studying?

If it's a case of retention, studies have shown we retain beginnings and ends but not so great on middles. Knowing this if you break it up into 20 minute chunks, you have more beginning and ends then you do middles and retain more.

Getting past the initial inertia is the first big hurdle. This may just be a question of discipline, forcing your self to do it.

Sometimes setting up a kind of gambling system with yourself works, line if I do x I'll reward myself with Y and if I fail at A I'll punish myself with the loss of B. It's a kind of self trickery.

Sometimes reframing what your doing into a wider more altruistic context can work too. If I do well at X it means I have a greater chance to do well for my family or contribute to a field of study.

gline

Setup a routine. Once you start following it, it will get easier to study, but you will have to get strict with yourself to some degree. Your body naturally will just want to do something more "entertaining" and non work related, but you will have to push past that. Reward yourself after doing some study.