Study+Spaces

Study spaces have several elements that may cause issues and need to be considered carefully. Remember first and foremost that it should work for //you//.

Location
First, where you study shouldn't be as pleasant as it is functional. Having a lovely window is nice, but if you're looking out it instead of at your work it's not an effective study space and you're waste a lot of time you could have actually been //out// that window and doing something else.

Two steadfast rules: Don't study where you sleep Don't study where you eat. The reason for this is that your brain assigns activities to the geography so that when you go to the seat at the dinner table where you usually eat, you'll be hungry. And, of course, if you go to read a book on your bed...you know you're very likely to fall asleep.

Sound
Each of us is sensitive to certain things and not to others. If the sound of the dishwasher, humidifier, etc is a distraction, turn them off or chose a different study location.

You may have heard that classical music makes you "smarter"...well, it doesn't...really. What it actually does is allows you to concentrate, research showing it actually changes brainwave patterns. So, if you have trouble concentrating, try listening to music...patterned acoustic without lyrics seems to work best. Classical, instrumental, soundtrack music, etc are a good bet. Lyrics actually activate another part of your brain and can divide your attention, so if you're listening to something with words, you will want it to be something you're so familiar with you don't think about the words anymore.