Reading is boring, isn't it? Every time you have to open a book or do
your homework, a million things go through your mind that can be very
fun to do. Studying is something you have to do sometimes that leads to
the obvious question if you have to do it, is there at least one way to
make it more enjoyable? Or at least boring?
First and foremost, if you want to make studying fun, you need to be
interested in your subject. All the way back to 1913, Francis Lockwood
wrote in his book The Freshman and His College, in time, the secret of
learning lies in our ability to wash our mind, our work, our study in
the spread of interest. But how do you get that interest? Of course, you
don't do it by jumping directly into minute details. To get a strong
enough interest to empower you during a difficult study, you need to
express yourself in interesting aspects of the topic. First, no one
reads the History of the Middle Ages before reading the Lord of the
Rings or at least watching movies first. And no one is going to grab C
sharp edges unless they are interested in building something on a sharp C
like a video game.
I will use my model Anna as an example. Anna is a person who does not
really like to read everything that is not a myth. Louis went to the
city museum. Along the way, we listened to a podcast called Hardcore
History. And if you haven't listened to this podcast before, it's one of
the most enjoyable podcasts in the world. It is my favorite podcast and
one of the episodes we listened to was about Ancient Persia. After
listening to the episode, Anna became interested in the subject and went
to buy the book Persian Fire by historian Tom Holland. And this is a
good book. But as you can see here, it is a thick history book. And it’s
not the norm for Anna. But in spite of that, he finished the whole
book. Because the podcast gave him that first spark of interest. And I
remember when he read it, he would come up to me many times and say,
"Hey, I remembered when he talked about it on the podcast." So he
created a lovely link.
The second tip I hope you will be interested in is anything you learn to
find a way to grow. Carol Dweck's book Mindset The New Psychology of
Success compares people with consistent minds who strongly believe that
talent or ingenuity is organized and do not change with people with
intellectual development. People who believe in anything can be changed
and improved. At the beginning of this book, Dweck points out that the
idea that you also play a big role in how interested you will be in your
studies. Especially when travel is difficult. While doing research on
the book, he followed up on alumni who were doing their first chemistry
studies during their new year in college. In this study, the average
test distance was C plus. It was one of the weed studies that was
designed to be difficult so it grows people who are not well prepared
for the medical system in the first place.
