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Study habits come naturally, don’t they?

Study habits are what I see as the important tools and processes that I use to read, make notes and write-up my thinking. Whether that is for reading and notetaking, ongoing writing for personal reflection, or something for my Thesis, my study habits allow me to ‘get there’ (Or, as close to ‘there’ that I can be)!

What are my study habits?

When I do the following, my writing is slower than it used to be, but its quality improves significantly. Ringfencing my doctoral study time and promise myself that I will keep to it: So many people say ‘turn off your phone’ and ‘shut down Twitter.’ I say: ‘do what works for you.’ I love tweeting about what I’m doing when I’m working; it helps my motivation (something else that’s really important).

What’s the point?

When people ask me, “Why are you doing a doctorate?”, my answer is, “Because I enjoy it.” In all of the study habits I’ve listed above, I forgot the most important one: Enjoy studying: If I am not enjoying what I am working on, I think reflectively about how I’m studying, when, where, how often, my methods and sources of motivation.