Sleep is good
Ze talks about how to study…
When I was in college, I tried a variety of techniques and I must agree that stress is the biggest killer for being productive and effective in anything.
I used to get myself so worked up it could literally take me a day to read 10 pages. Although, when it came to writing, I could pace the floors with writer’s block until 4am then somehow pull something out of my rear that got an A. These posts aren’t too impressive, but I always got A’s on writing and I entertained the thought of doing it professionally at one time (writing, not blogging).
Anyway, I minored in cognitive psychology and while researching memory, I came across many mentions about how memories can be linked to many different stimuli. So for a project, I did an experiment with some friends to determine if they could recall facts learned while drunk at a later date better if they were drunk or sober. It wasn’t done with the best scientific proceedure since it’s hard to get drunk people to listen to boring stuff that they didn’t know anything about before if they aren’t told to listen. I don’t exactly recall the details, but they did do a little bit better at recall when in the same drunk state that they learned the facts.
I also tried the experiment with music and location as the extra stimuli to help memory, but the results were not as conclusive. There wasn’t as big of an improvement by adding the additional factor that was present while they studied the facts the first time. I guess it goes with out saying that overall, they did a lot better studying sober; my experiment did not support the notion that you should study while drunk.
