Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5
Sign up for your FREE trial of The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/PhPe30egcrb Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get distracted while studying – even when you know you really...
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This episode is supported by The Great Courses Plus. Hi, I’m Thomas Frank, this is Crash Course Study Skills, and with this video in particular, I want you to promise me you’re not going to click over to another tab to look at cats. In exchange I’ll pretend that’s not exactly what you did during the last four videos. In all seriousness though, I do want you to ask yourself: when’s the last time you were able to sit down and intensely pay attention to one task for a long time? If you’re anything like me, this has become harder and harder to do as we’ve added more distractions to our lives – tweets, snaps, messages, browser tabs, cookies that must be clicked – they’re in endless supply, while your brain’s ability to resist them is, sadly, not...
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This episode is supported by The Great Courses Plus. Hi, I’m Thomas Frank, this is Crash Course Study Skills, and with this video in particular, I want you to promise me you’re not going to click over to another tab to look at cats. In exchange I’ll pretend that’s not exactly what you did during the last four videos. In all seriousness though, I do want you to ask yourself: when’s the last time you were able to sit down and intensely pay attention to one task for a long time? If you’re anything like me, this has become harder and harder to do as we’ve added more distractions to our lives – tweets, snaps, messages, browser tabs, cookies that must be clicked – they’re in endless supply, while your brain’s ability to resist them is, sadly, not...
