Quick ADHD and study tips
Quick ADHD and study tips:
"Who cares if i'm pretty if i fail my finals?!??!?!" ⁎ ˚ ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ ✲ﾟ*｡
💌 Do the minimum. Don't do any more than the school expects you to do. Don't overwork yourself trying to become an expert on every topic ever, making every project a perfect masterpiece.
--> "i"ll just do this quickly" method. Do the minimum. What's the least you can for for this topic?, the easiest, most minimalist, "laziest" solution possible? Do it. It helps to get started. (exactly what I did here.)
💌 Adjust your routine to a radio's broadcasting schedule (background music and "company" aka chatter in the background)
💌 Pomodoro timers really comes in a clutch. (it plays white noise, and makes me miss the sound of rain the breaks XD)
💌 Switch from Word to a notepad, a colored paper, google translator, diary etc, write your essay there. It will help you memorize faster and get process the information better.
💌 Drink water or a caffeinated drink if you would like to stay up to study ♡
🩰 Too tired to design a PPT? : SlidesGo Templates
🩰 Too tired for grammar? : Grammarly or ProWritingAid
🩰 Too tired for words? : Wordtune and Wordtune Read
🩰 Set BeLineReader to something colorful (space colors)
🩰 Make a song out of it. Read the subject or a textbook you wanna memorize, make a script and make it a song so you remember. pro tip: record yourself singing it and replay it in a loop until that test or quiz xoxo.
🩰 For revisions: loop a song. One topic-one song. Then you switch the song, next topic. It's even better if the songs are from completely different genres.
🩰 Make a To-Do list. To-do lists are my faveeeee. They help me get productive and you can tick off everything that you mastered in a day. It really helps. Try it yourself.
How to remember anything? / Learn stuff
🎀 Create (write a poem, try reading it out loud (singing, act it out)
🎀 Make it touchable (form the numbers / letter from plasticine, sticks, gravel, ketchup, candy, shoes, or anything)
🎀 Morse / ASL (knock, clap, or sign the numbers/letters)
🎀 Tell it in different styles, on different levels ( to a kid, to your dog, to your plant. "Emotionally" as if you were telling some outrageous news, or as if it was the greatest thing in the world! It's ridiculous, It's nonsense! It's so stupid, It's brilliant !!! It's tragic, actually.
🎀 Tell it professionally, as if you knew what you're talking about, like some sassy professor. Tell it as if it happened next door, as if you were some old folk telling it to the children, tell it like a bored weather forecaster, present it like in some tv ad!
🎀 Learn it at places (literally, bring your book / little paper to a corner of the house, or out to the park. number one it'll help you get out of bed and out of your room and number two you will wear something cute and you will feel so much productive.
🎀 The mind palace method, but place the data on a picture. (take a picture, a stock photo, anything, and write dates / words at different places)
🎀 Speed run (set a timer, it can be Pomodoro and do what you have to do on max speed. Yes, you got x minutes to sit at this one spot in the bathroom and memorize these words, drink tea, and take out the trash! The clock is ticking! It's adrenaline rush.
🎀 The same thing i was saying, try studying in the bathroom. For me personally, i find it extremely comfortable and i can think faster and understand the subject. I would suggest maybe try finding a comfortable spot that you loved when you were a kid in your house, it could be anything and you will see changes!!
🎀 Tie it up with the senses (pick a color / palette, a taste, a smell, a feel, a texture, a style etc. For each topic you can recall later. Chew a specific taste gum while studying, chew the same taste while writing the test. Spray a perfume, set your desktop / phone background to a picture that fits the mood, set the lights, surround yourself with a specific texture, create a mood.)
🎀 Make a cheat sheet (write it in a "compressed format," so only you can understand it, and it takes up the least place possible. Tiny drawings, reminders. The point is not to have the information but to have a safe reminder in your pocket, you can reach out to. You may not even need to use it.)
🎀 Have water and sleep (yup, a dehydrated brain can't think, and our brains process information while in REM sleep - for a sleeping tracker try : a sleep cycle calculator
🎀 Play card games, like Activity (do you know the board game "Activity?" or Twenty Questions? There are also a bunch of card games (mainly played with French cards) where you have to yell words and smash cards. Well, why not rewrite the game with the words / dates / phrases you need to memorize? Even better if you play it with people who study the same thing as you." )
So that's it for now. I hope I helped some of you pretty human beings to become your best educated self. Once again, i hope you guys take care of yourselves and drink lots of water. - love, bella ♡
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