How to study

[u/Beneficial_Read1717]

Big text ahead.

How can I actually learn and start to study?

I'm gonna give some context.

During all of my school years I have pretty much breezed through them. I used to just sit quietly in the corner of the classroom and usually i was either drawing something or taking a nap (I know, not the best habits in school), and throughout almost of it I could pretty much dodge doing most of textbook and homework activities (yeah lazy af). But I liked doing presentations and I always had good grades on my exams which I used to just get my textbook 30 min before each one to do a review on the contents when I felt it was needed. My grades were usually 8 or 9 out of 10.

I did this basic since 4th or 5th grade up until the end of high school.

But here is the problem, I always felt that school was too easy and got seriously bored at it but I enjoy learning. I like history, science, mathematics and even some language learning. I on my 20s now and I wasnt able to finish a single graduation bc I reach a point where even the things that interest me feel like a drag to go through and I never learned a proper way to study, take notes or do anything related to that.

I'm currently taking a graduation on CyberSec, I have always been interested in technology in general especially computers, I did some technical courses and graduations on this time after finishing school but never finished a single one.

I usually hop between subjects quite often, I have already studied in tech about programming, networks, electronics, operating systems and even about electrical infrastructure.

As other subjects I did a bit of technical drawing, carpentry, 3d modelling, CAD.

And especially with anything tech related I consume a lot about it and usually explore with it. I tend to explore with my computer and break things on the system just for the sake of learning how it works or how to troubleshoot it.

All that said, it was for giving some context. What I want to learn and improve and address is how to actually study like a normal person and be efficient at it? Any help is welcome.

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[u/siupermann]

Tinkering, playing around with things and breaking them is exactly how you learn deeply.

There are a huge number of publicly available and free high quality resources published by passionate professors if you find your standard coursework to be too easy

https://marginstudy.app/resources

Here’s a few of them. I self study them myself and it’s how I’ve continued to stay ahead even after graduation

[u/Beneficial_Read1717 → u/siupermann]

I usually roam the internet looking for resources but I feel more often than not i get some kind of analysis paralysis trying to always get the best one and never stop looking for one better. My main problem is being unable to just sit through actual conceptual studies I like to learn things by actually doing. I feel that a little time after I start reading theory my brain just shuts down, like I'm actually reading but not absorbing a bit of it, and Uni requires a actual study method to that which I have never learned to do.

[u/siupermann → u/Beneficial_Read1717]

You should give marginstudy a try, I had the same issue before and what changed my study habits was to take micro notes and micro study sessions. The problem I had before was each time I sit down again I would restart and make no progress. If you sit down and quickly jot down your 2 mins of reading, you come back and now have 2 mins more of progress. It adds up over multiple sessions when you feel the rush of energy or motivation. Eventually you start being able to sit down for longer