It all depends on you, how much rest your mind and body demands. You can actually sleep for nine hours but what is most important is how you are utilising the time when you are studying.
If you are studying for say eight hours a day, make it the most effective time. If while studying you are thinking about Quora, Facebook, YouTube or how you can save the world from aliens or corona, if you are using phone every ten minutes, then that is a sheer waste of time. You are fooling yourself then. If you genuinely want to crack the exam then study to your maximum potential, with utmost dedication.
If you are tired, take a break. Maybe a power nap or a walk in the garden/roof or listening to something motivational or a song, that depends all on you how you will feel better and will get energy to go back to studies.
But please don't do this thing that first you start using WhatsApp or something else, waste an hour or so on that and then end up being more tired. This will waste your day.
Your rest time for such activities should be defined. Control your mind else regret is the worst feeling ever. Time won't come back . So decide well and study as per your potential and schedule you make.
If you can study only for one hour a day initially, no issues. Be sincere with that. Slowly your sitting capacity will improve automatically.
Eat well and healthy. It is rightly said that “ A healthy mind resides inside a healthy body”
Coming to me, I had no specific sleep patterns. But when I felt tired, I used to lie down for twenty minutes or took a power nap. Only thing I took seriously was that when I am studying, I am studying. It is initially difficult to control mind, but eventually as your ambition becomes more important than any other thing, you will be able to do it.
Just try every single day to reach your true potential, which actually is infinite.
All the best.
-Shuchita Arora UPSC-ESE (AIR-16)
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