Sunday, January 17, 2010

Study Hacks - A great article (Y)

SA,
Hope you are all fine ? :D
EXAMS !!!!
The topic most of us are talking about those days :/
and of course, most of us talk about studying hard, spending the night studying, tension and the bad subjects the drives you mad...etc.
well as my friend "Noran" used to say "It's not the load that breaks u down...it's the way u carry it".
Thats true :D
let me say that over the past years I spent in studying I used to study few hours coz I get bored fast :D
and thanks to Allah my grades was very good :)
Sometimes I feel guilty about this wasted time when I don't study, but when I read this article I realised that I was right and I won't feel guilty anymore, because the time I don't study in is not wasted time, it's a recharging time ;) 
Here's the article


http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/07/26/the-straight-a-gospels-pseudo-work-does-not-equal-work/


Thanks to "Abdelrahman Zakaria" who published this link.


and thanks for all those who read this :D:D

8 comments:

Noran El-Kafrawy said...

well tata, it's not me :D
it's either lou hotlz or lena horne 8-)
but I love the quote :D...it works for me :)

The article is really good (Y)
I liked the eqn:
work accomplished = time spent x intensity of focus

thanks for sharing :))

Anonymous said...

LOL @ "I feel guilty for wasting time" :D and for "I'll not feel guitly anymore" :D
Btw, the resy rest of the blog is fantastic! You'll find many other great posts as this one.

Fatma Samy said...

@Noran: Well I heared it from you, I guessed that it's not your own quote :D
but I'll keep seeing it as yours (A) :D

@Abdelrahman: :D:D, Thanks.

Anonymous said...

I've a suugestion. What about adding this factor to the equation:
word acc = time spent x intensity of focus x level of interest

Rana said...

work acc =time spent x intensity of focus x level of interest

I think this will not work for all people coz not all who are studing are interested in what they learn so !!

Fatma Samy said...

mmmmm
well "level of interest" is just a factor, we may consider it a non zero positive integer :D
so if your interest equals 1
work acc =time spent x intensity of focus
but if your interest equals 2
work acc =time spent x intensity of focus x 2
it's doubled :D
so of course the level of interest have an effect but this effect mustn't be negative ;) or it'll be your fault :D

Unknown said...

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it"

sa777 gedaaaaaaaan, w shokran ya prof 3ala el post el mofeed da

Fatma Samy said...

:D
Thanks to you Prof.Amr :D

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