Best Ways to Avoid Distractions While Studying

Children are often easily distracted, especially when they are studying a topic that bores them. What to do to avoid his distraction? To be able to concentrate better, we must always keep in mind certain issues and certain circumstances. Maintain a routine in the study, have a daily and constant place of study, have environmental conditions that help (little ecological noise, pleasant temperature ...), avoid distractions and have all the necessary material for the study at the table.

However, despite getting the above elements, if we are not excited about what we are studying, and we do not remain energetic, we will hardly concentrate.

What are the main causes of student distraction?

An especially useful option is to take into account which is the main and habitual causes of distraction in the student, which will greatly help you avoid them to study better and in a much more effective way:

Bad environmental conditions: noise, little or poor lighting, room temperature high or very low.

Bad planning in the study: above all it occurs when it has not been planned what is going to be studied and for how long, confusing.

An absence of programming in the study: together with poor planning, it occurs when there is no defined schedule, or a good distribution of time has not been carried out.

The degree of difficulty of the contents to study: especially when the contents to study tend to be very difficult for the degree of intellectual maturity of the student.

Personal, social or family problems: especially when they create nervousness and tension in the student, which prevents him from studying and concentrating usually.

Physical or mental tiredness: both influence decisively, since to achieve a good concentration it is necessary that the student is fully rested, both physically and psychically.

Inexistence of a suitable method of study: when the student does not know how to study or does not have a proper study technique. You can know more about some useful techniques, such as the Maddox method.

Lack of motivation: especially when the student is not motivated about the objective he intends to achieve after the study, either because he is forced or because after several failures he has lost the desire.

Lack of will power.

So, how can we avoid distraction when studying?

As we see, many causes can influence in some way or another when we get distracted when we are studying. From something as simple and as simple as physical and/or mental fatigue to having little willpower, either because what we study we don't like, or because we just don't feel like doing it at that moment.

Avoid studying tired!

Studying tired is precisely one of the main causes of distraction, basically for something very simple: fatigue negatively affects both our performance and our ability to concentrate.

Do not study when you are worried!

Fatigue not only also negatively influences our ability to concentrate and study. So does our state of mind. That is, if for example, we are worried about something, in particular, we feel nervous about something or we are simply emotionally stressed, obviously, we will not get good results, and we will only waste time.

The solution is just as simple: try to calm down and leave the problems aside. Or, well, mentally try to solve them and park them.

Choose an appropriate study site!

It is another of the most obvious causes: not having an appropriate place to study properly. For example, it is not a good idea to study in a room with the television set or with the computer on while we chat and try to study.

Therefore, it is best to choose a suitable place, and above all, to warn others that we are close to pleasing not bother us.

Do not use your mobile phone!

Before, a few years ago, a usual cause of distraction was studying with the television on or having the computer screen on while chatting. Now that distraction has passed to the mobile phone, with each and every one of the applications that we have installed in it.

In this sense, the solution is quite simple: turn off the phone and/or avoid using it all the time you are studying. And, of course, do not have it close (much less at the same table where you are trying to study).

Techniques that Improve Concentration!

Anxiety, tension or worries often cause the lack of concentration. In this case, the student can resort to different techniques and mental exercises that will help him to relax and prepare and exercise his mind to obtain a greater concentration in his studies.

Visualize an Image: using this technique, the student must mentally visualize a simple geometric figure (a circle, triangle or square) and try to fix attention on it for as long as possible. When the figure disappears, it is necessary to record the time obtained, after accounting for it with a chronometer. The exercise must be repeated periodically to try to overcome the previous time each time.

Attention Games: some simple games are designed so that whoever performs them must train their attention without realizing it. Some proposals are the tangram, the soups of letters, look for differences, chess or the sudokus.

Music and Sounds: listening to music can also become an excellent exercise in concentration. The student can listen to their favorite music and try to concentrate on distinguishing when a certain instrument sounds. Also in an environment in which different sounds are interspersed, you can "play" to try to attend exclusively to only one of them.