I’ve got no suggestion on how to study correctly as we all learn in different ways but whatever you’re doing now clearly isn’t working.
As an example, I’ve got ADHD and I learn through doing. I could spend eight hours miserably staring at text books and retain nothing… but if I instead study by constructing or finding an applicable problem and struggle through solving it I’ll retain quite a bit.
i have adhd too and sadly trying to apply that…welp i spent 4 hours trying to solve a problem and i never got it right, i seem to only remember what i dont need
I also have adhd and the best thing I have found is tricking my brain into seeing the thing as interesting by adding context. I’m not referring to the associate a single thing with another thing that apparently works for most normal people, but by entirely changing the context.
Even singing the thing I’m doing to myself while I write it down can be enough. Or writing it down in a way that adds some extra context. A stick person on a sled on a graph of a slope is enough to remember something like whether it is ascending or descending. Or an alligator eats the larger number for 3 > 1.
More complex subjects are harder, but the concept is the same. Need to interact with it in a way that piques my interest or it is going to float away from memory.
This was great for me as well, even in social science contexts. I’d draw out stick versions of historical events or do wordplay with names and events. And my notes would all be written as if I were retelling a friend’s story, rather than using any professional lingo. I was never good (and am still not) at remembering specific dates though, just general timelines.
You’re studying wrong.
I’ve got no suggestion on how to study correctly as we all learn in different ways but whatever you’re doing now clearly isn’t working.
As an example, I’ve got ADHD and I learn through doing. I could spend eight hours miserably staring at text books and retain nothing… but if I instead study by constructing or finding an applicable problem and struggle through solving it I’ll retain quite a bit.
i have adhd too and sadly trying to apply that…welp i spent 4 hours trying to solve a problem and i never got it right, i seem to only remember what i dont need
I also have adhd and the best thing I have found is tricking my brain into seeing the thing as interesting by adding context. I’m not referring to the associate a single thing with another thing that apparently works for most normal people, but by entirely changing the context.
Even singing the thing I’m doing to myself while I write it down can be enough. Or writing it down in a way that adds some extra context. A stick person on a sled on a graph of a slope is enough to remember something like whether it is ascending or descending. Or an alligator eats the larger number for 3 > 1.
More complex subjects are harder, but the concept is the same. Need to interact with it in a way that piques my interest or it is going to float away from memory.
This was great for me as well, even in social science contexts. I’d draw out stick versions of historical events or do wordplay with names and events. And my notes would all be written as if I were retelling a friend’s story, rather than using any professional lingo. I was never good (and am still not) at remembering specific dates though, just general timelines.