“The best study habit an achiever has is 8 hours of sleep,” I say at 2 AM & dehydrated
before you can use AI as your second brain for studying, I have a simpler advice.
this might sound like the most hypocrite but relatable advice you’ll ever read, and somehow sleep is always the first thing we sacrifice when school gets instance.
hell week for example.
but…the more I study, the more I’m convinced that sleep is part of studying, not the thing you sacrifice for. When you’re exhausted, you read slower, forget more, and spend twice as long on things you could have finished quickly.
and it has a domino effect (horizontal) and other piled up health effects later on (vertical).
so instead of stretching a 1-hour study session into 3 miserable disguised as “toxic productivity” hours, do this instead;
1.) SLEEP - just sleep, bro and study with an actual functioning brain the next day.
2.) WRITE - at least 3 things. When you’re too tired, just scribble even incomprehensible phrases of what you need to accomplish the next day.
3.) HYDRATE - drinking water helps us more than we realize.
these are basic things that most of us ACTUALLY neglect. remember, 8 hours of sleep IS NOT a reward nor laziness, it’s maintenance.
Anyway, I’m saying this at 2AM, so clearly I’m still in the experimental phase