How to keep studying

Most of the time I make a plan, I found that I don’t carry it out but only think about the fact that I made that plan and also the fact that I finish it yet and then forget it. How do I stop this vicious cycle and achieve the goal of the plans I make?

Recently I started a study group of reading IT book with previous coworker. It is to finish reading one book. To do that, first we split the book into some pages so that we can easily finish one portion at a time. Second, we make simple quizzes from one portion. Usually 10 quizzes. Third, on the study day we exchange each other’s quiz and solve it. Then check the answer. This usually takes less than 30 mins.

To make a quiz and work on it, we use google spread sheet since it’s convenient to share and keep record of quizzes that we’ve made. Quiz we make doesn’t need to be complicated. It can be simple word check or True or False style. Purpose of making a quiz is only to make sure that we have read the book so even if it’s very dumb question, that’s totally acceptable. Benefit of this is that it’s less pressure and effort and whenever you want to study in more applied way, you can simply make the quiz smarter.

Key is less effort and sustainability. You really should not make this study such a hard pressure on you. Too much pressure will just make you stop study immediately.

After starting this study with her, I found this is extremely working well. At least I am finishing what I schedule to achieve. Even for my own study goals, I should apply the same method.

One concern is that there’s no one to check whether I’d finished the planned portion or not. But trying would not be any harm. This is effective if it’s reading a book especially.

I’m going to apply this method to read Applied IT book and ITA(Introduction To Algorithm). Hopefully this will be fun process in later 10 days. Those 10 days are all of my paid holidays left.

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