I like to count them as I walk down the hall. The people who were moving along in front of me and then just freeze where they stand. People randomly frozen against a wall or right in the middle of the hall. I call them the FROZEN people. Just like Stephen King’s 10 o’clock people. Those are the people who go out for smoke breaks at ten every morning. The Frozen people are the people who start reading something on their phone and then realize they can’t walk and be on their phone at the same time, so they freeze in place.
Brains need rest. You feel it at the end of the day, but you don’t pay it any mind DURING the day. Just because your smart doesn’t mean your brain operates differently than everyone else.
If you reach for your phone the second, you wake up you’re starting on the wrong side of the bed. You’re setting a precedent for yourself. You’re telling yourself to reach for your phone in every moment you’re not otherwise occupied.
• Rolling out of bed
• Walking down the hall
• Waiting for the elevator
• During a commercial
• Traffic lights
Your brain needs a few moments of rest periodically throughout the day. We’ve sucked ever moment dry. Your mind is go go go even when there is nothing to do.
You need a break in the action for your brain to categorize things to remember, too solidify memories and create new pathways and connections. The flood on information provides data, but no wisdom. Wisdom comes from processing and reflection on the data.
Space and margin play a role in learning and memorizing you wouldn’t believe. One issue that when you switch from one task to another part of your brain keeps right on working on the first problem. It takes time to pull your whole brain into the new task. If you keep task switching constantly you never get up to full power. You are the very definition of scatterbrained.
That brings us to the point of the May issue of the Physician Assistant Exam Scholars newsletter. I’m just putting the finishing touches on it, and it’s all about getting in the zone. Dropping the world around you and getting into action mode. It’s all about creating a better studying situation so you can get more done in less time and remember more of what you did. I don’t want you bragging about how you spent 8 hours in the library. I want you to be smarter than that.
Study smarter. Start now
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian