I cant Study.............

The trick is to find the subject interesting—no, fascinating. It is remarkable that doing so is often possible.

Studying can be horribly boring, and when it is, doing so is tiring and ineffective. Here’s my trick. For most such things, there was someone who found it fascinating. Why? If you can figure that out, then you too might find it fascinating. And if you find it fascinating, then study becomes a joy. In fact, you will discover that you don’t have to memorize anything. You’ll remember it because the mind remembers fascinating things.

Taking a boring class? Ask yourself, why is this class required? Often the answer is because somebody thought the material was not only important but interesting. Perhaps your teacher doesn’t think that, and that’s why the class is boring. But who created the course? Why did they put it in? What did that person love about the material?

I learned this lesson in college. I had a difficult course in Western Civilization, and we were reading the challenging essays of some of the great philosophers. I was struggling to memorize their key points, their ideas, their arguments. Then, one afternoon, a friend of mine (Richard Shavitz) said to me, “Do you agree with what Kant said in that essay? I don’t. I think it is illogical. It’s all wrong. Here’s what I think …”

I was stunned. He wasn’t trying to study the essay; he was trying to figure out if he agreed. That evening I tried the same approach. It turned my study into fun. And I learned the material. And on the exams, I had things to say. My professor liked it when I disagreed with the philosophers! The course was really about thinking, not about memorizing. It made all the difference, and my final grade jumped up from B to A-.

-Richard Muller