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your voice and your conscience. When you open a book, what is
very important is the way you look at it. Do you despise your books?
Do you get tensed when you look at your books? If yes, then try

looking at your books with love and respect then learning will be
much easier. But if you have already decided that studying is tough
and boring then even if you try to learn your mind will not work.

When you are stressed, your mind can neither think nor understand
properly. You will have to get rid of the negative thoughts, only then
will you be able to accommodate new ideas. Tension forces the mind
to waste a lot of energy, and after sometime you start feeling

exhausted. Your mind does not work at your desired speed, and how
much ever you try, you cannot understand and learn things.

How to measure your intellectual level? If you are reading a new
topic and your concentration is only on parroting the facts and you

are not able to go into the depths of it or understand the concept—
this is an issue. This should concern you because this implies that
you have heavily restricted your intellectual level.

If you get mentally tired after doing a little bit of intense or in-depth
study, it implies that you are not studying properly. Once this starts
happening, you will start getting irregular, Irregularity in studies will

take you nowhere.

If you make small targets—and try to achieve them they will take you
to the ultimate goal. Just like when you start learning how to drive a
vehicle—first you start driving on the roads nearby your house, and
only after that you hit the highway. Similarly, you do not have to hit

the highway immediately in your life. If you have started studying this
week then you must make small targets and increase them
gradually. When you know that you will be able to achieve your
targets, there will be no tension and your productivity will increase.
Enthusiasm is anyway high at the start of any activity, which leads to
a person setting unrealistic big targets. Don’t fall prey to the over
confidence and enthusiasm of the initial days.