2010-12-17, 01:25 AM
Cram studies. My long term memory has been declining more and more, and when the topic is something I'm not all that interested in, I'll forget it by the time I've been involved in another task for 3 or so hours; typically needing another 35 minutes reviewing the content to remember it.
Silence doesn't work for me, makes me thing about life too much. Music doesn't work for me, makes me think about things that are tied to that music when I've heard it in the past. TV doesn't work because... well it's there to take your attention. So I generally just have a song playing inside my head over and over and over to sorta "blank" it out for studying. Not sure if that makes sense, or how I could explain how it is different from actually listening to the music, but it works.
Silence doesn't work for me, makes me thing about life too much. Music doesn't work for me, makes me think about things that are tied to that music when I've heard it in the past. TV doesn't work because... well it's there to take your attention. So I generally just have a song playing inside my head over and over and over to sorta "blank" it out for studying. Not sure if that makes sense, or how I could explain how it is different from actually listening to the music, but it works.