![]() In addition to recording your own notes, you could borrow and record a friend’s notes. What about you? Do you have 15 minutes or more of mindless work each day? Would it help you to listen to your lecture and study notes when doing mundane work? ![]() This routine made it so much easier to understand the material and to study for the exams. The foundation was there so each session I could build on the knowledge previously learned. This commuting exercise (pun intended) enabled me to show up to class with material from the last session fresh in my mind and ready to absorb new information. This was really helpful because, whereas the lecture would take about 45 minutes or an hour to listen to, the relevant material from my own notes took only about 15 minutes. On my bike ride to school the next day I listened to my own recordings of the notes. I would summarize all the key points so that I had the most pertinent information from the lecture. To solve this problem, I took my own notes during the lecture and then read them into a recorder at the end of the day. Everything from students asking about upcoming exams to the professor telling about her college experiences. A 45-minute lecture recording contained too many minutes of non-study material. They were also too long and full of extraneous information. I would listen to music as I commuted until I realized I could be studying!Īt first I recorded lectures but I found the recordings to be of inferior quality and very hard to listen to, much less absorb. It took me between 15 to 25 minutes to get there. I used to live two and a half miles from school and I would bike ride to school slowly when the weather was nice. One trick that I discovered during my undergrad years is how to maximize my study time by listening with my ears while doing something else with my eyes and the rest of my body. I have learned that these little things require you to be physically active but your mind is actually able to absorb material while doing them if you listen to the material in the right format. ![]() While you would prefer to be studying, you can’t because you’re physically focused on something else, like commuting to work or school, doing household chores, walking the dog, food shopping, etc. I still don't like to read, but listening to books at 2x speed really does help me, if I need to read something for a project and it's available as an audiobook.As a college student studying organic chemistry among a load of other courses, you are likely a very busy person! And if you’re like me, you probably feel guilty every time you do something that doesn’t involve studying!Įvery day you have many mundane tasks to complete. ![]() FINALLY, the story progressed at the speed of my brain, and didn't feel like I had to intentionally slow my thoughts down to "keep up" with the story. That felt sluggish too until I put the speed at 2x speed. There were many books to choose from, so I chose a crime thriller, which WAS actually really good, but reading it was a pain until I figured out how to "stream" it from an Ebook service, where there was also a nice voice-over for the book. I have read books, mainly those that have been mandatory to read at school, for projects and stuff and I realized that listening to books, at 2x speed is literally THE best thing that has ever been invented for us with ADHD. ![]() I don't like to read books, I have tried to read so many times, so many different books, but I can just never get into it. ![]()
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