How to Find the Desire to Study?

Posted by JohnEdwards on June 29th, 2019

DID YOU EVER SAY "I DON'T WANT TO STUDY" BECAUSE YOU SPENT MONTHS AND MONTHS READING AND REPEATING FOR AN EXAM? Today we'll talk about how to find the desire to study, but first, let's take a little step back.

It all starts in the old high school days when you went to the classic and were just a model student. Probably, you studied so much, you never said "I don't want to study" and ended up getting good grades in school exams. 

After completing high school, you got enrolled at the university and started pursuing your degree in a career of your choice.

Maybe right from the start, you realized that to get the same results you got in high school, you have to study a lot more and make a lot more effort than before. You may think you have already learned an effective study method after all the hard work you have done in high school, but you soon crash into the reality of the facts and the unwillingness to study.

In the university years, the teachers may teach you many important things. But no one teaches you the most important thing:  how to study.

This forces you to make an enormous effort to maintain a high average at the university, to study even when you don't feel like it. This is the effort that most students make that at the university have a high average.

But what happens at the university?

Very often it happens that an exam arrives that you can't pass and that doesn't make you go on. So much so that you end up seeing it as a monster. There are students who even think about leaving school just because they spent a year on an exam and never managed to give it.

At times, some students take an exam once, it goes wrong and they can no longer present themselves because they never feel confident in their preparation, and they study with the desire of getting a great result. 

How to find out you are struggling to study? 

"NO, I DON'T FEEL QUITE PREPARED ... I PREFER TO TRY IT AGAIN NEXT TIME WHEN I FEEL LIKE STUDYING!"

It is the classic phrase of the student who loves to postpone to infinity, instead of facing the exam and understanding why they never want to sit there and study!

Do you understand that the problem here is not the exam itself, but much more?

THE REAL PROBLEM IS YOUR NEED FOR PERFECTION

Maybe you see the professor as a monster, or you realized that it's a harder exam than the others, and therefore you can't accept your idea of imperfection,  and automatically when you realize that you don't feel like studying you feel guilty because "YOU SHOULD WANT TO STUDY".

You can't tolerate the idea that it can go wrong and that's why you can't even introduce yourself to the exam, never feeling 100% sure of what you studied. 

Let's start with the concept of perfection. You don't have to fall in love with the idea of perfection, you have to fall in love with the results!

We repeat, do not fall in love with the idea of perfection, in love with the result of perfection. If you are not able to complete your assignment perfectly, it is okay. Don’t be too hard on yourself. You make sure you complete your assignment. But if you don’t have time and wondering “Can I pay to write my assignment for me?” Yes, you can! AC offers you the help you need to get your assignments completed. 

Students who get stuck on an exam and fail to move forward, or simply feel guilty because they can't find the desire to study. They get stuck because they have the idea of being perfect and if they don’t get expected results, obviously they are in crisis.

Assume that you want to be perfect in your ideal reality. The point is that you don’t have to be perfect in the ideal reality, but in real reality, in what you do every day!

You don't have to imagine reality for what it needs to be, but because of how it actually is right now. Reality is like this right now, maybe you don't want to study, maybe you don't know how to find the desire and it's okay, you start from that.  

ASK YOURSELF: WHY ARE YOU ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY?

Maybe you got stuck because you don't have a clear motivation. The MOTIVATION is why you decide to take a certain action. 

What is your reason? Have you ever answered this question? 

 Because very often the reasons can be these:

• "I want to make my parents happy"
• "I want to help others and so I choose the faculty that allows me to do it"
• "I want to prove to myself that I am worth something" ...

These are NOT real REASONS.

When you put yourself in this light you understand that the University is just a test to be overcome, everything changes. We know that the things you study can be boring, that you often don't feel like studying, but if you've decided that your aim to help people has to go through being a doctor, you have to be willing to pay the price. Because life works like this, there is always a price to pay, if you really want to do something. So, you better decide to build your own reality and consequently choose to pay the price, which is a lot of hard work.