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Strategies to Increase Focus in Work and Learning Part 1 Every student knows that absorption and internalization of learning and quality of output depends upon the amount of concentration and focus you can bring to bear upon your work. However, one of the most common causes of frustrations for law students is the inability to focus on work due to non-conducive environments. For many, the library is usually a safe refuge to do work without interruption. But it does not work for everyone. Like every other part of the world, law schools too, could have their own shares of unsavory characters and surroundings. While you can feel in your guts that it is imperative for you to free yourself from distractions and focus on your work at hand, the level of focus or concentration that your require may be eluding you. This article would help you with some tried strategies to reduce distractions and increase your ability to focus.
Control your surroundings:
mark your “audio” surroundings with something under your control. This helps to build your personal comfort
First, make sure that your surroundings are conducive
zone and increase focus.
to the task at hand and would not interrupt your focus. Surroundings that make you comfortable can
Control your body:
include both physical and mental factors. Using a desk and chair combination that does not make you feel
Influence your body with time tested techniques.
comfortable is not going to help you focus on your until you find a situation where you can sit and work
Drink lots of water – the human brain starts performing
comfortably.
at less than peak efficiency due to dehydration much before we actually start feeling thirst. If you are
Build Toffler’s zones by placing personal objects to
learning and working, don’t form the habit of drinking
claim stake to space and turn it personal. People turn
water only after you feel thirsty. Drink water at
spaces into personal comfort zone by placing objects
scheduled intervals so that thirst never hits you, and
with which there is a personal attachment, or an
you always remain hydrated.
attachment may be developed. Leaving your hostel room unadorned is going to affect your mind if you just
Eat properly and at scheduled intervals – improper
continue using what you received. Putting up pictures
intervals and upsets in the timing of food can disrupt
of yourself and your near and dear ones, posters
biological cycles in your body and lead to many
of things or people you love, using objects that are
ailments besides loss of focus. It is imperative that
personal helps to create a personal comfort zone and
to have the best use of your personal faculties you
mark out territory. It is essential that a person should
need to maintain a disciplined regime of food and
feel that a space belongs to him or her at an immediate
sleep. Keep snacks at hand while studying or working.
level to be able to use that space for residence and
Intellectual work burns calories at a rate five times
focus during work.
faster than physical work. The difference is that when you are physically tired you would be able to quickly
Shutting out distractions is essential and small things
‘feel’ it, but it might take a long time to realize that
like listening to music or white noise producers can help
you are tired due to mental work. Snacks do help in
you concentrate. By putting in place background noise
studies.
that covers other distracting noise, you essentially
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