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Nguyen Dinh Hoang Long_Assignment 2
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING CONCENTRATION
Task Distractions Cause (AIM) Solutions Attend lecture class Easily to feel bored, tired of studying. Do not feel like doing anything. Motivation Prioritize studying while in class, push yourself to study, listen carefully, seriously. The cause can come from an unhealthy schedule so updating, develop a more healthy schedule, timetable to keep your states at its best, strong and productive. Lose interest when attending due to cannot solve personal problems during the lesson Motivation Participate more during lecture, such as asking questions, listing out unmentioned problems Got distracted by the environmental factors, such as people walking into the room, hearing people talking down the hall Attention More focusing, take notes during lecture is also a good way to enhance the concentration
Noises in class, come from classmates’ talking, unpleasant, irritating small sound. Attention Always keep your eyes on the instructor, professor, lecturer Lose focus while listening to the lecturer, think of outside problems instead. You may experience this if you sometimes find the lesson is boring Interest Try not to think of other irrelevant issues, things while in class Work on assignment People interruptions, it can come from your peers, colleagues or your parents. It varies from your working environment Attention Choose an ideal place to work at, it can be a library, a quiet coffee shop where you would not be interrupted by other people when working. Multi-tasking, when you are working on more than 1 task at the same time will slow you down terribly and you will find yourself losing concentration in working. Attention Do not try to do multiple assignments at the same time, even if the deadline is near. Doing multiple assignments at once will cause you to be less effective in each assignment. Wrap up 1 by 1 assignment is best. Got disrupted by other problems while working on your assignment. Maybe at home, you have to do Attention Choose an ideal time to work, finish other small tasks around you before focusing on your primary work would be good. You can within an ideal time which is when you don’t
other stuffs and stop studying, such as surf the web, watch tv, etc. Feel tired while cramming for exams. Studying in more than 2 hours may cause you to feel frustrating, harder to concentrate if you do not have break time. Interest Include breaktimes while working to do other stuffs. Such as having a drink, listening to music, having snacks or a short surf on the internet, anything to help you less tired when studying for too long. Sitting too long in a spot may cause you to feel bored and less interested in studying and you may stop study. Interest Move to another study spots, those with good views or you feel comfortable working at. Feel stressed about incoming exams, feel worried , lose motives to study. Motivation Rewarding yourself when finish studying as a way to motivate yourself to keep working. Studying all night may cause you not only lose concentration but also your studying productivity Attention Have enough sleep, plan out a better studying timetable.
Do not feel to work properly, can not concentrate well, this may be caused by environmental factors, such as lighting, atmosphere, sound, etc.. then lose the interest of working Interest Set up a good working environment, it should be clean, quiet, with spaces to spread out.
