Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

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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 don’t have time for Facebook, Snapchat, Cookie Clicker, or whatever else is calling you? This week we’re going to help you get a better handle on your focus and concentration and how to improve those skills. Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get a free trial here: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/desktop.html Resources: Bottom-up and top-down attention: different processes and overlapping neural systems: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24362813 How to create a dedicated study space in your room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDkNOSUK1w Cold Turkey: https://getcoldturkey.com/ StayFocusd: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=en Forest: https://www.forestapp.cc/en/ Why Breaks are So Important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkraRj8uAYQ Deep Work by Cal Newport: http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ *** The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally. *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following Patrons

Published 2017-09-05 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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