Part One then continues with a collection of battle-tested strategies to help you fight procrastination. This advice comes straight from the experiences of real students and has been proven to work amid the chaos and distractions of the typical undergraduate lifestyle-it is simple, easy to apply, and surprisingly effective. This part concludes with a discussion of when during the day, where on campus, and for how long to study to maximize your productivity.
The students interviewed for this book experimented extensively to find the right answers to these key questions, and, in this final step, I pass these answers on to you. Together, these basic skills are the foundation upon which all the advice in this book is built. Master them, however, and you will experience improvements in all aspects of your life-not just grades. So relax. You are about to take your first step toward a much more enjoyable and productive college experience.
Real straight-A students, like most reasonable students, hate time management. After all, college is supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, making new friends, and becoming obsessed with needlessly complicated drinking games. An overwhelming interest in time management is best left to harried business executives or, perhaps, premeds.
As mentioned in the introduction to Part One, all of the techniques described in this book require some ability to control your schedule. Ignore this skill, and you doom yourself to four long years of playing catch-up with your work.
But this is not the main motivation behind controlling your schedule. As it turns out, a little planning goes a long way toward reducing your daily stress levels. Having deadlines and obligations floating around in your mind is exhausting-it makes it impossible to completely relax, and, over time, can lead you down the path toward a breakdown.
The uncertainty vanishes: When you work, you can fully concentrate on the assignment in front of you, and when you relax, you can do so without any anxiety. This is why time management, as Doris stated earlier, is the key to getting the most out of all aspects of your college experience.
The goal of Step 1 is to present a time-management system that helps you achieve this stress-free balance without requiring you to sacrifice the spontaneity and excitement of college. Specifically, we present a system tailored to the typical undergraduate lifestyle that meets the following criteria:. We will cover the details of this system in a few simple steps and then conclude with a detailed case study so you can see how it works in a realistic setting.
Record all of your to-dos and deadlines on your calendar. This becomes your master schedule, the one place that stores everything you need to do.
The key to our system, however, is that you need to deal with your calendar only once every twenty-four hours. Each morning, you look at it to figure out what you should try to finish that day. Then, throughout the day, whenever you encounter a new to-do or deadline, simply jot it down on your list. Pretty simple, right? The whole system can be summarized in three easy steps: 1 Jot down new tasks and assignments on your list during the day; 2 next morning, transfer these new items from your list onto your calendar; and 3 then take a couple of minutes to plan your day.
In particular, we need some strategies for how to plan your day each morning using your calendar and what to do when unexpected events interfere and turn that plan upside down trust me, this will happen more often than not. This is where the magic happens. Every morning, spend a few minutes to update your calendar and figure out what you should try to accomplish.
This is the only serious time-management thinking you have to do for the whole day, so the demand is pretty reasonable. This updating process should proceed as follows:. Find your list from the day before. It will probably look something like the example described in Figure 1. Transfer these new items onto your calendar. Write the deadlines on the appropriate dates, and write the to-dos on the days when you plan to complete them.
You would then choose a day to do laundry and jot down a reminder under that date, and choose a day to start internship research and jot down a reminder under this date. However, try to use some common sense. For example, if Wednesday afternoon and evening are packed with meetings and work, this might not be the best day to schedule doing your laundry. You will learn how to: Streamline your study habits to learn more in less time.
Take smarter notes Hint: Less is more. Know which reading assignments are critical—and which are not. I'm going to use this book as an outline but I'm going to read the other two books if I need more specific study skills and strategies. I found this book had some great tips and very well structured so one can put them in action with ease. For me, however, the tips and advice from the author were very obvious, I am not certain if it is just me or they are indeed ovbious.
Reading it and puting it on the top of your mind does help a lot. Great book! A must read for every student striving for 4. More by Cal Newport. Deep Work Cal Newport 4. Digital Minimalism Cal Newport 4. How to Win at College Cal Newport 4. Hazlo tan bien que no puedan ignorarte Cal Newport. Minimalismo Digital: viver melhor com menos tecnologia Cal Newport.
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