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management that will help you succeed even in spite of setbacks
and delays.
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly,
naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You
can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental
vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
Vanishing time – the importance of elapsed time:
Elapsed time is a new concept to many students. Elapsed time is the
total amount of time that has passed over a period. A good example
of elapsed time is trying to study during television commercials. With
fifteen minutes of commercials per hour show, you would only put in
one hour of studying over a total four hour period.
Studying in front of the TV is never a wise choice, even if you think that
it is a good use of the commercials in between. It does however offer
a good example of how time can slip away without being noticed.
Even by diligently studying during every commercial it will still take you
four hours of elapsed time for one hour of study time you would put in.
Calculating elapsed time is a good method to determine your study
efficiency. If you really want to find out your study efficiency, take a
digital watch with you every time you study. Whenever your attention
is diverted or you are not studying, stop the watch. Over a period of
time (elapsed time), you will notice how efficient your studying really
is.
Studying isn’t easy. However studying can be made less painless and
more enjoyable by structuring your approach. By setting your
academic goals, making a schedule and sticking to that schedule you
will be able to see more clearly where you are going.
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