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Are you studious?

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#1 ·
The title says it all, are you? When you were/are a school student then how much passionate you were/are about your studies?It's hard for me to focus on one subject for a long time, and I don't like studying for the whole day and all. I only work hard for my final exams:dry:
 
#2 ·
I have to be in my phd program, but I do still procrastinate like crazy. Productivity goes in 3-4 day spurts lol. I do work really hard though to be the best at what I'm doing and it's exhausting and not fun, but so worth it to be proud of your work instead of embarrassed by it since you know you're capable of doing better.

Honestly I am much better at school being in my mid 20s. I was a huge PITA for my professors during undergrad, always asking for extensions and such. Being smart but lacking focus seems to be a huge problem for ENFPs until tert Te develops.
 
#4 ·
I study....but there's a balance between 2 stresses. The one stress is procrastination - if I wait too long and have to rush, then there's the stress to get it done in time and be prepared. The second stress is anxiety - putting too much emphasis on any topic is going to make it seem much more important than it may actually be, and that is going to trigger all kinds of pressure to make it perfect. Therefore, the golden mean for me is to give myself small study sessions to really learn one area and make it sink in, and to do homework after relaxing for a bit in the evening. When I write papers, I'll usually talk myself through them for a few days, to get what I want to say in some kind of structural order before actually typing it.

Also, I tend to remember things better if I explain them to someone else (even if that someone else is imaginary). :p If ideas make enough sense to me to be able to clearly explain them, then I know them well enough. :)
 
#5 ·
Does writing down whatever I'm studying helps? Yeah, I've got the habit to talk to myself, irrespective of studies, my mom warns me when I get too loud in the conversation with myself :p *looks embarrassed*
 
#6 ·
I can study for hours straight if it's a topic that interests me. If it's not a topic that interests me, I just make sure I memorize the material as quickly as possible.
 
#8 ·
I basically only go over all of the material when I know I need to or else I'll take a quick peek at my notes right before the test begins. I'm don't have the best study habits, I know. Talking to people about what I'm studying really helps me get things straight in my head though. Even randomly reviewing the material in my head at points of the day when I have nothing else better to do helps with my memory.
 
#9 ·
I only work hard for my final exams
This is me and studying in one sentence.

Everyday school life is just too repetitive for my liking and I end up on forums (as you can see haha) instead of doing homework.
But if I LIKE the work then I can stay in my room for hours and hours and hours.
 
#11 ·
Very studious at the school I'm in right now. I was only as much as I needed to be before, but I really like the school I'm at and I want to learn more about the things we talk about.

Although I don't really study formally. My "studying" method for Biology is to make bad puns. More seriously, I don't need to study for math because I have usually spent so much time trying to understand it that once I do, I'm gold.
 
#12 ·
I try to make things meaningful for myself. If I'm sitting in class, thinking, "Why on earth do I need to know this??" then I find out why. I turn to someone or somewhere or something that provides the background information, so I find the motivation, because most of the time, if I just tell myself to get something done, it will not happen. ;) Plain memorization is a lot of work!
 
#13 ·
I don't know that studious is the way to describe me. I have never focused in a way that best represented my ability. With that said, I did extremely well in college and was on the dean's list for my last three years. I think there is an art to studying for an ENFP. Thankfully, we generally learn fast in the way of concepts, themes and patterns. We struggle more with detailed examples and need to focus on that prior to exams.

Honestly, it's a hindrance if you start too early with some projects since you will be spinning your wheels over thinking what you can do with it. Te kicks in on a time constraint and there is no way to make it otherwise since our dominant or auxiliary functions will fill the space until crunch time. I can't think of any other way to build Te than to let it take over when it absolutely needs to.
 
#14 ·
Thanks again for the replies, it's really hard for me to avoid internet( I can't retire so soon from here you know), and yes, it's easy for me to learn up something, but I tend to procrastinate everything, even studies. I feel very lethargic, nowadays, I often get a scolding from my ISFP mom for not focusing. Learning is good, even I know, just can't explain this to my laziness! :-/
 
#15 ·
I would never use the adjective 'studious' to describe myself. However... I don't like to fail or not understand concepts either. I want to get good grades and develop meaningful relationships with my professors. It took me a long time to figure out study habits that worked most effectively, because most of the ones that the schools teach did not jive with my style.

Like, for instance, if I want to spend the least amount of time doing a project.... I would just do it all at once. I didn't care if that meant I was doing it for eight hour straight! I know that if I left for more than a few hours, the thought-process I was going off of originally would likely be gone and I would not be able to remember how I got to the conclusion I reached. I never really wanted to spend another eight hours completely doing the project again!

Also found out doing the shorter assignments at school was easier than doing them at home. I'm bright enough that most classes I understand without paying too much attention to the lectures, so I would just partially listen and work on the homework I had in that class or other classes.

Tests were just a matter of understanding the concepts. The more I could connect and interact with a teacher, the more I would likely be able to understand a concept because they had the patience to teach it to me (in a way I could comprehend, that is!). In 10th grade, I failed geometry second semester. But in 11th grade, I had a fabulous teacher in Algebra 2. I went from doing poorly in math to getting the highest grade in the class (usually I could understand most things myself, but I had a harder time in classes where I didn't feel the teacher wanted to teach me). So I learned if I had a poor teacher... to talk to other teachers in the same school who taught the same subject. Often it was a matter of finding the right person who could understand how I thought and present information that catered most usefully to that.

ENFPs are quite capable of being able to study well... just finding the right tools that work for you!

@Owfin - Oh you just brought back memories of my biology class in 10th grade. I could remember Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species by saying Kinky People Can Often Find Good Sex. My teacher (who was female, ironically) had the most perverted sense of humor EVER! It's shocking how well that can connect with high school students... it's really easy to connect with a teacher who can get down to our level.
 
#16 ·
Ahh, true with me. When I really focus on something, I give my full attention to it. My favorite subject is History, English Literature and Biology and I try to focus on them more than any other subject. Yeah, I've got boring teachers (except my English teacher) and my classmates..none of them are NFs or NTs (at least I didn't meet), some of my friends really help me, but it's hard for me to connect with them mentally. I've got a good brain, but I feel lazy to use it. I simply push myself sometimes to work, and when I start studying about something which I'm not interested in..I tend to empathize so many things, instead of studying! And it's hard for me to 'mug up' something line by line. I hate mugging up the laws of the scientists! I love learning about it..but 'mugging up' sucks.
 
#17 ·
I procrastinate like hell. I have a very good memory, and so once I've read something it tends to stick; and I always take note of quotable tidbits of information, they do make winning a debate oh so very much easier. They also really help in writing essays.

I can't study the whole day, but I like to read beyond the remit of any course. I pick what interests me, and delve deep into it. I learn better by self-learning rather than teaching. If my teachers would identify some writings on a particular topic that interested me, I'd read articles on it, follow the references and go follow it to source. Effectively, I'm not a 'study study study' person, but "I have never let my learning interfere with my education" :wink:
 
#18 ·
I'm a natural procrastinator, like many posting above, and so I learned to study very efficiently. I just somehow "know" what notes or specific points are going to be on the exams. I'll often take my class-friend's books and a highlighter and go through highlighting for them what will be on the test. The teacher's tone will perk up, get more excited or expressive on certain points so then you know. I study about 4 hours per exam.

Class attendance is even worse. If you forced me to guess my attendance for my BA it'd be about 40-50% in total over those 4 years. I skipped entire weeks. I skipped when a road hockey game went down, and I skipped when it was sunny. My commute to school was an hour and twenty minutes each way, so the savings in time were so big skipping.
 
#19 ·
Yeah, and now I'm putting on more focus on my homeworks and study. It's really disgusting to study the subjects in which I'm not so much interested. >_>
 
#21 ·
In high school, I must admit, I didn't really study and still got A* in art, A in media studies and C in English Literature for A-levels... but it's a shame that in universities or creative colleges don't need a high grade to get in... T___T

Meh. I always found it easier to write than read... Need to read more.

Well, I tend to ace my work, find my way to the top intuitively, it just always comes to me. But I'm just a fast paced hard worker when it comes to things I'm passionate about. I believe that I could warp time and space just to get what I want, everything is possible because:
Nothing is true or false, everything is permissible.

Yeah, I know, a bit cheesey but it has its truths.
 
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