How to study subjects you HATE

The first is you THINK you are interested in the subject matter,
but the reality is you're not. If you were, you'd have no trouble
starting. I'll prove it to you.

If you are a stamp collector and you start to read about the new
issue of the new Olympic Stamps for the London Games - you have no
problem with focus, attention or retention do you?

That's because you're INTERESTED.

The challenge we all have as students is that every academic
program has courses we don't like. I remember hating Thermodynamics
in Engineering School, Chemistry in College and Multi-variate
Statistics in Business School (Ph.D.).

But y'know what?

YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. It's part of the curriculum and you have
to pass the course to get the diploma and the degree.

I suggest you do THAT homework FIRST. Get it out of the way. DON'T
DO WHAT YOU LIKE FIRST. That is a recipe for disastrous grades - it
will increase your chance of failure BECAUSE you'll spend MORE time
on what you like and not enough time on what you don't like...

Don't do it.

Of course, that's easier said than done. But if you start studying
what you don't like, you'll feel RELIEF and a LOT LESS STRESS.

We all have to study stuff we don't like - we NEED TO. We need to
be aware of things because that's what education is all about.
There is NOTHING you can do about it, EXCEPT to get it out of the
way FIRST and QUICKLY.

If you want to get through the boring subjects quickly, get your
hands on my "Speed Reading Video Program" so you spend LESS time on
the subjects you hate.

[ Read more about it at http://www.SpeedReadingVideo.com ]

Speed Reading forces you to focus and concentrate and get it out of
the way in a fraction of the time. Imagine spend HALF the time on
chemistry, physics or geography... How cool would that be?!?

That being said, the SECOND issue you have is with confidence and
self-esteem.

That is a lot harder to deal with. If you are keen to
deal with this, I have a colleague who can help you get a
breakthrough. Her name is Yvonne McIntosh and she offers
"Breakthrough Sessions" for $97 that she can do over the phone or
Skype. She's based in Australia but deals with clients from all
over the World.

Visit her website if you want to overcome the self-esteem issue
quickly:

http://lifeleaders.com.au/breakthrough.html

If you don't choose to have the "Breakthrough Session", all you
need to do is stop putting pressure on yourself and focus on the
fact that whenever you LEARN something NEW, it's by definition
something YOU DON'T KNOW.

It takes time and effort to learn something NEW.

One of the strategies I teach is to start at the beginning. For
example, for Statistics, I bought a book called "The Cartoon Guide
To Statistics" to get the basics in a FUN WAY.

I bought this as a Graduate School Student to help me with my MBA
and Ph.D. courses.

I'm serious. I did the same for other subjects as well.
The "For Dummies" series of books is a great place to start
whenever you're intimidated with a subject.

posted by goat