
Becoming the best student won't be easy and it won't be fast, but it is something that you will have to do. The first step is waking up at 4 a.m. for the first time.
Achievement is a word that thrown around quite often but often misunderstood. What does it mean to achieve? To achieve something means to get what you want after a series of actions. E.g. becoming a top student after studying very hard for a lot of hours or becoming a great chess player after years of practice or coming out number #1 in a race after months of practice; that’s achievement.
Do you remember how easy it is to forget the things you don’t like or the things that seem boring to you. Well, that’s how the brain was made by the Creator to help us not overload it or run out of space. The brain easily remembers the things or events that have emotions attached to them. On the other hand, things that are emotionless are taken to be unimportant. The main reason behind why people practice spaced repetition is because it helps our brains to recognize the emotionless events as important.
Studying is very important in school, in fact it is the main reason for school. Mostly you’ll hear people asking a student questions like, “How are your studies going?” Whether you are writing a test next week, tomorrow or a month from now you need to know the time that is best for studying in order to produce the exceptional results.
What does it mean to be one step ahead? Simply put being a step ahead is a having somekind of advantage over everyone else. This advantage really seems insignificant and useless but at the right time it makes you perform miracles no one else can.
Defined in many different ways self-discipline is the ability to control one’s feelings and overcome one’s weaknesses without help from other people.
We all have 86 400 seconds in a day and what you do with those seconds determines how, what and who you will be. The good part about life is that no matter what you do, at some point you will be able to change all those mistakes or errors because of time.
The human brain is one of the most complex things that have ever existed. It can remember things as well as imagine what has not happened. Because this complexity of the brain, I have decided to dedicate this whole smartify to explaining about the brain.
To start with, studying is the easiest thing anyone can do. I know some you have already started reacting to my preceding sentence. Yes, studying is the easiest thing you can do. Why am I saying this? Well, you just need to have a reason to study and you will find yourself studying without thinking about it.
Before we start, I just want to point out that this is not my book or philosophy, I am simply summarizing and explaining Stephen R Covey’s book. The reason I have chosen to share this book with you is because if you apply these habits in your life as a student, you will be happy and successful.