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TAKE A BREAK time for relaxing activities. You will make better
progress in the long run.
Unless you are accustomed to studying regularly,
you may find that you tire easily. This is not un- WHERE TO STUDY
usual. It will take time for you to get into the
study habit. If possible, you should have a regular place to
study. Naturally, this place should be relatively
In the beginning, make your success hours short
free of distracting noises. You cannot successfully
and break them up with periods of rest. After
study your lessons and watch television or listen
you have completed several lessons, you will be
to the radio at the same time. You have to devote
able to study for an hour or more in one session
your full attention to your lessons. If you do not
without getting tired.
have a quiet place where you can study, consider
It is important that you do not make your going to a public library. Most libraries are quiet
schedule too ambitious in the beginning. Until and have an ideal study atmosphere. Before you
you get used to studying again, two short peri- sit down to study, be sure that you have every-
ods of study with a break in between are better thing you need. Then you will not have to stop in
than a single long study period. the middle of a lesson to get a pencil or a piece
of paper. Keep these materials near your place of
BE FAIR TO YOURSELF study at all times so that you can go right to work
Be sure your study schedule is reasonable and is once you sit down. There is nothing more dis-
one that you will be able to follow. This schedule tracting than continually jumping up and down.
should not deprive you of time for other activi- Running to the kitchen to get a pencil or running
ties. Each activity gets its fair share of attention somewhere else to get some paper or a glass of
with a carefully planned schedule. Although you water leads to bad study habits. Be sure you are
will have to work to get ahead, be sure you leave ready to study before you sit down.

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